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Document Details : Title: Seeking Matrology Subtitle: A Reconsideration of the Under-/Misrepresentation of Early Church Women Author(s): HAWKE, Shé Mackenzie Journal: Studies in Spirituality Volume: 30 Date: 2020 Pages: 229-251 DOI: 10.2143/SIS.30.0.3288720 Abstract : The roles of women through whom a Matrology might be derived, are examined here in two ways: firstly, and according to apocryphal, historical and contemporary interpretations, through precarious gender relations of the political and historical context of the patriarchal Greco-Roman world; and secondly, by analysing both reductionist and inclusive accounts of women’s witness and role in the early Christian Church as ascetics, translators, benefactors, teachers and companion equals to early Church Fathers. That this disparity, and further omission of women from the Christian canon has been sustained until the twenty first century, makes such a study and reconsideration imperative to the veracity of studies in spirituality and theology. |
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