(Missed part 6? Read it here. Or start from the beginning.) First-Wave Feminism Having talked about first-century Greek and Roman culture and Victorian culture, and made some fuzzy connections between them, author Rachel Green Miller then turns to the feminist movement. The clear theme of this chapter is that first-wave feminism was all good and […]
Examining Beyond Authority and Submission (part 6)
(Missed part 5? Read it here. Or start from the beginning.) The Gap Having looked at the First-Century Greco-Roman culture, we now leap forward more than a millennium-and-a-half to the Victorian era. It isn’t really clear why. Presumably we are supposed to accept the premise that Christianity swooped in and overturned everything modern egalitarians don’t […]
Examining Beyond Authority and Submission (part 5)
(Missed part 4? Read it here. Or start from the beginning.) Perversions of Truth Do Not Negate Truth That loooong quote from Plato in the previous post makes clear that even within the thinking of a single individual, there may have been a lot more nuance than the quotes in Beyond Authority and Submission might suggest. Miller […]
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