Jesus Was a Feminist

What the Gospels Reveal about His Revolutionary Perspective

By (author) Leonard Swidler

Publication date:

17 December 2007

Length of book:

352 pages

Publisher

Sheed & Ward

ISBN-13: 9781580512183

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.
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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 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?