Jesus liberated women but once his followers got a generation or 2 removed I think some of them lost sight of the freedom he brought us as they tried codify that freedom into another religion.
Not exact matches
The essence of
Jesus is the daring moral imperative, the universal goodness of human members, the spiritually catalyzed proletarianism which spread to the West, civilizing humanity and
liberating the slave, man and
woman.
The Christian theologians took their cue from other letters of Paul's in which he is clearly using his culture's customs to resolve friction that had arisen when
women began responding to the
liberating gospel of
Jesus Christ.
An obvious example of such filtering is Billy Graham's discussion «
Jesus and the
Liberated Woman.»
The black church gave black
women the «possibility of experiencing a
liberating Jesus even as they were given a racist and sexist one.»
Yet black
women such as Sojourner Truth, Mary McLeod Bethune and Fannie Lou Hammer were constantly «
liberating Jesus as
Jesus was
liberating them,» through their own theology.