“The Subordination and Liberation of Women in Christian Theology: Saint Paul and Sarah Grimke”
1977
Rosemary Radford Ruether contrasted the Apostle Paul’s view of women’s role in society with Sarah Grimke’s view. The Apostle’s basic conservatism kept him from seeing women’s equality in Christ as a mandate for eliminating their inequality in the world. Grimke believed that all persons were created equal by God, and this natural equality was violated by oppressive social structures, in the same way that abolitionists believed it was their Christian duty to oppose slavery.
Poster
Vanderbilt University Archives