Triumph and tragedy of early Christianity

Abstract

This research aims to elaborate on women’s influence on the formations of Early Christianity and their underplayed role in affecting Europe’s intellectual movements. Women, both prior to and during the formation of Christianity, had been fully capable and passionate in their subverted attempts to contribute to society through intellectual, religious, and philosophical means. In these beginning years, there was reason to believe that Christianity’s success would allow for a gender equality that was formerly not seen throughout history. Unfortunately, Christianity’s institutionalization created ideologies that fundamentally undermined women’s validity by the writing and coercive use of biblical scripture. Regardless of this tragedy, women proved, both prior to and within Christianity’s history, they deserved the same sort of intellectual and societal respect that men have historically received. In this respect, history and even contemporary society can be viewed as misrepresentation and hindering of humanity’s progression as a whole.