Women in Christianity

Did not feel like this book did justice to the subject matter. If used in a class it should only be used as either optional material, or a supplement as there are better books on Women in Catholicism. It is Okay for general reading but should not be your final destination for research.

A very brief, clear and immensely powerful discussion of this explosive subject. One can spend a lifetime studying the role of women in Christian history and pondering Christ's relationship to the women in the gospels.--- Dairmaid MacCulloch has quite a lot to say about it in his enormous and brilliant work, The Reformation. And there are countless other scholarly works dealing with the subject --- But a concise treatment such as this by a great theologian has immense authority. Hans Kung leaves no doubt that the life of Christ, His teachings, and His saving grace belong in full measure not only to men, but to women. The book is fully documented, and highly accessible. [...]

Great book!

Once again Fr.Kung has said it like it really is!!! With honesty and compassion. A must read for all women, especially catholic women.

Hans Kung is a scholar and theologian of stature and I was interested to see his contribution to this debate. In essence all this is an erudite repetition of the usual arguments dismissing Scripture as culturally conditioned, and tradition as patriachally invalidated. I was hoping for insight; a new approach; a more convincing reason to embrace innnovation than jettisoning God's sovereignty. The idea that "it-can't-be-true-because-it-is-them-saying-it" is just not good enough; the hermeneutic of suspicion must also be treated with suspicion; the examination must also be examined. Frankly it is irrational to cherry-pick dogma and doctrine and present it as 'truth'; the only way this is possible is if 'truth' itself is denied as a real quality.

Did not feel like this book did justice to the subject matter. If used in a class it should only be used as either optional material, or a supplement as there are better books on Women in Catholicism. It is Okay for general reading but should not be your final destination for research.

A very brief, clear and immensely powerful discussion of this explosive subject. One can spend a lifetime studying the role of women in Christian history and pondering Christ's relationship to the women in the gospels.--- Dairmaid MacCulloch has quite a lot to say about it in his enormous and brilliant work, The Reformation. And there are countless other scholarly works dealing with the subject --- But a concise treatment such as this by a great theologian has immense authority. Hans Kung leaves no doubt that the life of Christ, His teachings, and His saving grace belong in full measure not only to men, but to women. The book is fully documented, and highly accessible. [...]