The "'liberation' [of women in Jesus and Paul] happens
against the backdrop of an equally unique and permanent revaluation of the
gender difference. In fact, the
difference is maintained throughout:
from the special designation of Mary as the mother of the Lord and,
later, of John (hence of the Church) to the (no longer merely symbolic, but) 'incarnatory' relation between Christ as Bridegroom and the Church as Bride and the new
valuation of marriage that follows from it (Eph 5). This goes far beyond the relation between
Yahweh and Israel in the Old Testament, which had not yet found an echo in the
human-sexual sphere, and which also has nothing in common with pagan and
Gnostic 'syzygies.' . . . The New
Testament’s 'revaluation' of the woman to equality of dignity is inseparable
from the simultaneous accentuation of the difference between the sexes."Tuesday, July 30, 2019
The greater the equality, the greater the complementarity
The "'liberation' [of women in Jesus and Paul] happens
against the backdrop of an equally unique and permanent revaluation of the
gender difference. In fact, the
difference is maintained throughout:
from the special designation of Mary as the mother of the Lord and,
later, of John (hence of the Church) to the (no longer merely symbolic, but) 'incarnatory' relation between Christ as Bridegroom and the Church as Bride and the new
valuation of marriage that follows from it (Eph 5). This goes far beyond the relation between
Yahweh and Israel in the Old Testament, which had not yet found an echo in the
human-sexual sphere, and which also has nothing in common with pagan and
Gnostic 'syzygies.' . . . The New
Testament’s 'revaluation' of the woman to equality of dignity is inseparable
from the simultaneous accentuation of the difference between the sexes."
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