My paper will discuss the views about women in the church presented by Nolan and Johnson. Both see how Jesus empowered women, and I will discuss the points they bring up to support that. These authors share in the idea that women are important in Catholic history. In her book, Johnson discusses feminist theology, the idea that women are not equal to men in the church. There are two different courses of action that feminists …showed first 75 words of 734 total…

…showed last 75 words of 734 total…women his friends and his followers. As far as Jesus was concerned, “ People were people, and that is what mattered.” Both authors see the important role that women played in Jesus’ life. Those who left the church due to its historically male dominated past fail to see the role that women fulfilled. Women’s role in the Catholic history is a significant one, and Jesus’ stance for equality is admirable in his time. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**