Why (suffering) women matter for the heart of transformative missional theology perspectives on empowered women and mission in the New Testament and early Christianity
In this article, it is argued that from the beginning of the Christ-following movement, the gospelmessage represented a challenge to a male-dominated social system.Early Christian literature shows that women, Right Handlebar whose voices were often silenced in antiquity, are empowered.This is seen most clearly in the Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felic