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“Yet in Paul's letters we can hear something more than his own genius: an echo of female voices, of conversations over the years with the women of the Aegean cloth trade who were his close collaborators. During this long fellowship, the apostle has not only been talking to women: he has been listening.”

Women Apostle Paul

Book:Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women

Source: Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women

“This is why humility was so important. It was the soul's way of short-circuiting the damage that could be done by the constant need to know where one stood with respect to others. The point of humility was not to think ill of oneself but to protect oneself from this craving for status. This, in turn, would free the spirit to see life in a new way.”

Asceticism Humilty

Book:Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women

Source: Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women

“In Luke's Gospel, Jesus is never unkind to the weak. He treats Martha with humiliating honesty, just as he would treat the male disciples.”

Jesus Women Gospel Of Luke

Book:Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women

Source: Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women

“Even if three centuries of outsider status and intermittent persecution had tested the endurance of individuals and communities, coping with the patronage of a newly Christian emperor posed a challenge. The challenge was all the more threatening for its moral complexity. Was it right for the churches to accept the Emperor's favour, knowing full well that if they did so, they also tacitly accepted his right, so evident in all other aspects of life in the Roman Empire, to call the shots?”

Church And State Constantine Early Christianity

Book:Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women

Source: Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women

“The new ideal of virginity and widowhood opened up a new era of sympathetic collaboration between men and women, and for male-female friendship. By establishing a category of women who were understood to be off-limits with respect to romantic entanglements, writers like Gregory were able to support and even celebrate a feminine version of Christianity without being afraid to seem as if they had fallen under the influence of feminine charms.”

Women Early Christianity Gregory Of Nyssa

Book:Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women

Source: Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women