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A 10 page research paper that offers a review of literature that looks specifically at what scholarship reveals about the Luke’s Gospel and its attitude toward women. The principal research question addressed is: “Does Luke’s gospel accurately relate Jesus’ attitude toward women or does it primarily reflect a later change in attitude, which originates with the early Christian community’s perspective.” Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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church, and also that the priest was a woman and the tombstone was purchased and set in place by her husband.1 The tombstone inscription indicates that the grave is that
of "Leta, the priest."2 As this suggests, as late as the fifth and sixth centuries, women in early Christian communities could be found who exercised priestly authority within the early
Christian church.3 However, by the reign of Pope Gelasius in the late fifth century, this practice had become strongly condemned, which is as fact shown by letter from Pope Gelasius
dated from this period.4 In the centuries immediately following the life of Christ in which the nascent church was established, modern scholarship suggests that women played an active role in
the early church. Many contemporary scholars now assert that women once widely performed "liturgical roles, including those of baptism and giving the eucharist."5 Considering this, the student of theology is
confronted with several questions, which concern what the gospel accounts of Jesus life convey concerning Christs attitudes toward women, but also how the early Christian church viewed women. To explore
these questions, this review of literature looks specifically at what scholarship reveals about the Lukes Gospel. The principal research question addressed is: "Does Lukes gospel accurately relate Jesus attitude toward
women or does it primarily reflect a later change in attitude, which originates with the early Christian communitys perspective." In order to establish a basis for this discussion, it
is instructive to examine how various passages in Luke have been interpreted by scholarship. Pamela Thimmes, for example, points out that the ancient communities of the early church undoubtedly
"heard and read Luke-Acts and...understood these texts" in a manner that is far different from the way in which modern readers perceive these texts today.6 Because there is very little
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