Early Christian Women and Pagan Opinion

Early Christian Women and Pagan Opinion

The Power of the Hysterical Woman

by Margaret Y. MacDonald

276 pages· 1996· ISBN 9780521567282
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A study of how women figured in public reaction to the church from New Testament times to the second century CE. MacDonald shows the conviction of pagan writers that female initiative was central to Christianity's development, and the belief that women inclined toward excesses in religion. Concern in the New Testament and early Christian texts about the respectability of women is seen in a new light when one appreciates that outsiders focused on early church women and their activities as a reflection of the group as a whole.

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