Sentences with phrase «towards women in the church»

But fired up as I was about porn culture and sexual violence, and questioning attitudes towards women in the Church, I felt bombarded by messages about conservative «biblical womanhood» that I couldn't identify with and that didn't seem to do anything to challenge the injustice I saw.

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When I encountered sexism in the church, altough in my case it was a woman towards a man (me) rather than a man towards a woman, I pointed out the issue in the church and I was blamed.

We need to take a similar approach to the one that many of us in the evangelical charismatic Church have taken towards women.

The Church has always understood that Christ takes this natural bond between a man and a woman that exists in the created order and is ordered towards family life, and He raises it to a new dignity.

The cosmos which is made for the sake of the Church - the Woman crowned with the stars (cf. Revelation 12:1)- is decreed towards union with God in the flesh of Christ.

If this is so, then the role of Tertullian in preserving, through redaction, [22] the dramatic, movingly vivid account of the martyrdom of a recently baptised young woman, the Roman citizen, Perpetua, in the amphitheatre of Carthage in about the year 203, ought to give us clues to the understanding of his attitude towards women as members of the church as opposed to women as martyrs.

the dramatic, movingly vivid account of the martyrdom of a recently baptised young woman, the Roman citizen, Perpetua, in the amphitheatre of Carthage in about the year 203, ought to give us clues to the understanding of his attitude towards women as members of the church as opposed to women as martyrs.