The Bible and Women: Bane Or Blessing?

Abstract

“The church in the past has tended to hear ‘God’ the most loudly in the various passages which endorse the status quo with all its divisions and classes … Thus religion brings up the rear in social change, and a misused Bible functions as a millstone … Perhaps there was a time when in God's history there was a place and a demand for subjection of women. But in our own historical circumstance, God's demand may be (and I believe is) quite different.”