Is Christianity a servile and womanish religion?

 Biblical Studies

Women in Luke’s Gospel: Christianity’s Elevation & Concern for Women

Michael F. Bird19 min read

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Is Christianity a servile and womanish religion?

It is somewhat ironic that today people sometimes dismiss Christianity as too patriarchal, whereas the ancient Romans reviled the churches as too womanish. They accused Christianity of being for the weak-bodied and feeble-minded dregs of society, a religion for losers, unmanly, and servile. Christians gloried in the shame of their crucified messiah, who himself, like a female captive, was violated into submission.

Topics like patriarchy, gender-equality, and gender-based violence in relation to ancient and contemporary Christianity are legitimate areas of discussion. I do not mean to defend all articulations of manhood and masculinity and the way the Christian faith is sometimes used to give them religious legitimacy.

But I do want to point out that Christianity, at least in its earliest centuries, had a reputation for being pro-woman, to the point of being disparaged as an effeminate, even emasculating, religious association. This is why the second-century pagan philosopher and erstwhile critic of Christianity, Celsus, said that the churches comprise “only foolish and low individuals, and persons devoid of perception, and slaves, and women, and children, of whom the teachers of the divine word wish to make convert.”1

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