Jesus Was a Feminist

Leonard Swidler is professor of Catholic Thought and Interreligious Dialogue at Temple University in Philadelphia, where he is the Founder/Director of the Institute for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue. He is the author of numerous books, including Making the Church Our Own.

• Chapter 1 The PlanChapter 2 Prologue: Women in the Ancient WorldChapter 3 Yeshua, Feminist and Androgynous an Integrated HumanChapter 4 Women in Yeshua's LanguageChapter 5 Women in Yeshua's TeachingChapter 6 Women in the Life of YeshuaChapter 7 The Attitude toward Women Reflected by the Gospel Writers and Their SourcesChapter 8 Conclusions

Leonard Swidler makes the case that Jesus respected, cared for and even advocated for the rights of women, not in the sense of Betty Freidan, but in the highly personal relationships he formed and the subtle societal changes he was able to bring about through them....The church as we know it couldn't have come into being without women leaders at its beginning. A well-researched, illuminating book, it asks, is our feminism today as deep as his?