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Joan E. Taylor - Ilaria Ramelli. Patterns of Women's Leadership in Early Christianity (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2021).

Abstract

“This authoritative collection brings together the latest thinking on women's leadership in early Christianity. Patterns of Women's Leadership in Early Christianity considers the evidence for ways in which women exercised leadership in churches from the 1st to the 9th centuries CE. This rich and diverse volume breaks new ground in the study of women in early Christianity. This is not about working with one method, based on one type of feminist theory, but overall there is nevertheless a feminist or egalitarian agenda in considering the full equality of women with men in religious spheres a positive goal, with the assumption that this full equality has yet to be attained. The chapters revisit both older studies and offers new and unpublished research, exploring the many ways in which ancient Christian women's leadership could function."--Publisher description.

Contents

1. Male-female missionary pairings among Jesus' disciples : some further considerations / Joan E. Taylor -- 2. Colleagues of apostles, presbyters, and bishops : women "syzygoi" in ancient Christian communities / Ilaria L. E. Ramelli -- 3. The entrepreneurial widows of 1 Timothy / Harry O. Maier -- 4. Sacred intercessors : widows as altar in Polycarp, Philippians / Margaret L. Butterfield -- 5. The image of the feminine in the Gospel of Philip : an innovative assimilation of Paul's gender legacy in the Valentinian milieu / Piotr Ashwin-Siejkowski -- 6. Women in gnosticism / Nicola Denzey Lewis -- 7. More ' holy women' in early Christianity : the gospels of Mary and Marcion / Markus Vinzent -- 8. Women office holders in Montanism / William Tabbernee -- 9. Women's liturgical practices and leadership roles in early Christian communities / Teresa Berger -- 10. Women deacons in ancient Christian communities : leadership and ordination / John Wijngaards -- 11. Eudocia's Homeric cento and the woman anointing Jesus : an example of female authority / Karl Olav Sandnes -- 12. Women church leaders in and around fifth-century Rome / Ally Kanteusz and Lucia Badini Confalonieri -- 13. The meaning of "presbytera" in Byzantine and early medieval Christianity / Kevin J. Madigan -- 14. Gendered space : Eusebius on the therapeutae and the 'Megiddo church' / Joan E. Taylor

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