This is what I as a Christian personally believe, but the tricky part is that Jesus says in the resurrection we will be "as the angels," and female angels are never for sure manifest in the Bible. There are two women with stork wings in Zec 5:9 who are perhaps angels, but that's pretty much it. I think I covered in the thesis that some early church fathers said there are no female angels because women are only good for reproduction and angels, being immortal creatures, do not need to reproduce. This is also why the angels were dallying with human women in passages like Gen 6:4, 1 Cor 11:10, Jude 1:6; they don't have female angels to dally with. These men believed women would turn into men in the resurrection (I wonder now how they feel about being the first transgender advocates in Christian history . . .)hauslern wrote: ↑Sat Jul 22, 2023 9:19 amChapter 2 "Despite many modern polemical assertions to the contrary, the Bible offers no clear, definitive consensus on either the question of whether God possesses gender or the question whether human beings will possess one in the next life' P. 15 if one accepts the resurrection would not that body display the equipment that one died with?
I don't let it worry me too much, since I have no control over it regardless, but it is interesting to think about. If I do turn into a man, I imagine the second thing I grow will be a beard.
She was an enthusiastic supporter of my thesis from start to finish. I don't remember the defense very well anymore, but I don't remember being asked very hard questions.hauslern wrote:How did Maxine Hanks your external reader react to your theses?
Women & Authority was probably the first feminist work of scholarship I ever read, when I was 16 or 17, so Maxine holds a special place in my heart and always will.
