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2. Women in Christianity - Wikipedia

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   Outline. Christianity portal. v. t. e. The roles of women in Christianity have varied since its founding. Women have played important roles in Christianity [ 1] especially in marriage and in formal ministry positions within certain Christian denominations, and parachurch organizations. In 2016, it was estimated that 52–53 percent of the world ...

3. Christian feminism - Wikipedia

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   Christian feminism is a school of Christian theology which uses the viewpoint of a Christian to promote and understand morally, socially, and spiritually the equality of men and women. [1] Christian theologians argue that contributions by women and acknowledging women's value are necessary for a complete understanding of Christianity .

4. Women in Church history - Wikipedia

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   Women in Church history have played a variety of roles in the life of Christianity—notably as contemplatives, health care givers, educationalists and missionaries. Until recent times, women were generally excluded from episcopal and clerical positions within the certain Christian churches; however, great numbers of women have been influential in the life of the church, from contemporaries of ...

5. Biblical womanhood - Wikipedia

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   Biblical womanhood. Biblical womanhood is a movement within evangelical Christianity, particularly in the United States. It adopts a complementarian or patriarchal view of gender roles, and emphasizes passages such as Titus 2 in describing what Christian women should be like. According to author Rachel Held Evans, it is driven by the conviction ...

6. List of Christian women of the early church - Wikipedia

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   Christian women of the early church. Name, also known as, location, year. Image. Description and legacy. Two slave women deacons. ministers, deaconesses, maid-servants. Bithynia. Pliny's letter c112. The governor, Pliny the Younger, wrote a letter to Emperor Trajan; one of the earliest documents showing persecution of the church by Roman ...

7. Church Women United - Wikipedia

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   Church Women United (CWU) is a national ecumenical Christian women's movement representing Protestant, Roman Catholic, Orthodox and other Christian women. Founded in 1941, as the United Council of Church Women , [1] this organization has more than 1,200 local and state units in the United States and Puerto Rico .

8. Christian sororities - Wikipedia

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   Christian sororities. While most of the traditional women's fraternities or sororities were founded decades before the start of the 20th century, the first ever specifically Christian-themed Greek Letter Organization formed was the Kappa Phi Club, founded in Kansas in 1916. Kappa Phi was a women's sisterhood that developed out of a bible study ...

9. Women as theological figures - Wikipedia

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   t. e. Women as theological figures have played a significant role in the development of various religions and religious hierarchies . Throughout most of history women were unofficial theologians. They would write and teach, but did not hold official positions in Universities and Seminaries. Beginning in the second half of the twentieth century ...