Of course, contemporary Christians, many of them, would like to take this as a great slogan of equality for women in the early church. I personally tend to think Paul was not terribly interested ...

The Church, especially in recent times, has paid special attention to these demands, encouraged by the fact that the figure of Mary, if seen in the light of her Gospel life, is a valid response to ...

Certainly the most prominent among these in the ancient church was Mary Magdalene ... In Romans 16:7, the apostle Paul sends greetings to a woman named Junia. He says of her and her male partner ...