"Women have been consistently robbed of our full dignity as friends of God and prophets, whether due to theories like Augustine's, who claimed a man taken alone was fully in the image of God, but a woman was fully in the image of God only when taken together with man who is her head; or philosophies like Aquinas' which argued that women are misbegotten males with weak minds and defective wills. Women have long been denied equality with men in access to sacred ties, places, actions and even identity.
The conclusion is that to be female is a handicap, but to be a sexually active woman renders one almost incapable of embodying the sacred. The few exceptions are queens. As a result, the history of women's holiness has been largely erased form the collective memory of Christianity."
-Sister Elizabeth Johnson
2007-11-22
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