The gospel and the first church were never hostile to women nor treated them as minors. ... When Christianity became a power or authority, this worked against women. A strange perversion, yet fully understandable when we allow that women represent precisely the most innovative elements in Christianity: grace, love, charity, a concern for living creatures, nonviolence, an interest in little things, the hope of new beginnings-the very elements that Christianity was setting aside in favor of glory and success. (Jacques Ellul)

The gospel and the first church were never hostile to women nor treated them as minors. ... When Christianity became a power or authority, this worked against women. A strange perversion, yet fully understandable when we allow that women represent precisely the most innovative elements in Christianity: grace, love, charity, a concern for living creatures, nonviolence, an interest in little things, the hope of new beginnings-the very elements that Christianity was setting aside in favor of glory and success.

Jacques Ellul

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