Chapter 2: Can a Man Be a Christian? “Why are the pews of Christian churches filled with women” (27)? Podles’ question is one that we must be able to answer. Women have outnumbered men in the church and have done so for centuries. Why? There are satisfactory theories for the low participation of men in …
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Chapter 1: Armies of Women The thesis of this chapter is found in Podles’ first sentence: “Despite the constant complaints of feminists about the patriarchal tendencies of Christianity, men are largely absent from the Christian churches of the modern Western world”(3). The truth of this claim should be evident to any church-goer. Podles could have …
Mankind is not androgynous. In Genesis 1:27, the Spirit says, “God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” Mankind is a general category which includes two variations, male and female (LC 17). Both varieties of mankind are equally made in the image …