The result of four decades of research, Jesus Was a Feminist compellingly presents the case that Jesus treated women equally with men, and he boldly broke the customs of his day to involve them in his work. Renowned scholar and leader among liberal Catholics Leonard Swidler examines all gospel texts involving women, asserts that women were involved in the writing of two of the gospels, and outlines the importance of women in Jesus' ministry and the creation and development of the early church. He shows how Jesus was a feminist and modern Christians should be too. Click here for the Detailed Table of Contents (pdf)
The result of four decades of research, Jesus Was a Feminist compellingly presents the case that Jesus treated women equally with men, and he boldly broke the customs of his day to involve them in his work. Renowned scholar and leader among liberal Catholics Leonard Swidler examines all gospel texts involving women, asserts that women were involved in the writing of two of the gospels, and outlines the importance of women in Jesus' ministry and the creation and development of the early church. He shows how Jesus was a feminist and modern Christians should be too. Click here for the Detailed Table of Contents (pdf)
Chapter 1 The Plan Chapter 2 Prologue: Women in the Ancient World Chapter 3 Yeshua, Feminist and Androgynous an Integrated Human Chapter 4 Women in Yeshua's Language Chapter 5 Women in Yeshua's Teaching Chapter 6 Women in the Life of Yeshua Chapter 7 The Attitude toward Women Reflected by the Gospel Writers and Their Sources Chapter 8 Conclusions
Leonard Swidler is professor of Catholic Thought and Interreligious Dialogue at Temple University in Philadelphia, where he is the Founder/Director of the Institute for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue. He is the author of numerous books, including Making the Church Our Own.
Leonard Swidler makes the case that Jesus respected, cared for and
even advocated for the rights of women, not in the sense of Betty
Freidan, but in the highly personal relationships he formed and the
subtle societal changes he was able to bring about through
them....The church as we know it couldn't have come into being
without women leaders at its beginning. A well-researched,
illuminating book, it asks, is our feminism today as deep as
his?
*Reader Views, November 2007*
One does not have to subscribe to all of Leonard Swidler's theories
about the origins of the gospels to be deeply appreciative of this
book. Swidler mines the biblical texts with zeal and skill to make
his case that Jesus took his stand on the side of the marginalized
women of the first century. I found this book powerful, insightful,
and challenging.
*John Shelby Spong, author of Jesus for the
Non-Religious*
Swidler brings together a lifetime of academic research and
personal involvement with one of the most pressing concerns for the
Church: the rightful place of women. He convincingly shows that
Jesus promoted the equality of women with men, looked on them as
fully human persons, and expected them to be treated as such. The
prejudice against women manifest in later Christian thought and
practice cannot legitimately be attributed to anything Jesus said
or did. This readable, compelling, passionate, and yet scholarly
book is set to become another Swidler classic that Church
authorities cannot afford to ignore.
*John Wijngaards, author of Women Deacons in the Early
Church*
The book Jesus Was a Feminist makes a convincing case for Jesus’
feminism. According to Swidler, the church as we know it couldn’t
have come into being without women leaders at its beginning. A
well-researched, illuminating book, it asks, is our feminism today
as deep as his?
*Reader Views*
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