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@georgia christianity as i experience it is in a bit of an interesting spot since we avoid some of the issues (i mean we now have a woman in the see of canterbury/primus inter pares of the communion and even the conservatives across largely like her). a close friend of the communion, the church of sweden has a straight up majority of women as clergy.

but obviously thats not erased patriarchy. its improvement to the point that we broadly realize women are no less an image if christ. a lot of east african anglicans want to bring back stoning gays but are fine with women as bishops.

and there are some things entrenched. its ‘our father in heaven’ and not ‘our mother in heaven’ as c s lewis’s cope argument against women’s ordination eagerly recalls. mary is our most treasured saint and, as my bishop argues, the most fundamental example of what it means to be christian (which has massively shaped how i think about a lot of things).

but we are a protestant church. we broadly do not hold her in the same esteem as our roman friends. the highest mariology actually comes from the christian east in the form of sophiology but idk much about sophiology and its not mainstream in anycase.

now gender and christianity does get a little weird since nobody serious is going to say that maleness somehow lies in the divine nature nor does it lie in the particular hypostases of the trinity (one of whom is often given the grammatical feminine). Jesus Himself gave birth as many icons understood the clear implications of the water from His body. maximus argues that sexual differentiation itself was against God’s design and ive seen maximians argued that the rift is closed in Christ (though only in principle before He returns)

and while jesus kept many women close to him and sent some out among the 70 apostles in luke, the 12 were all men. (well mostly. the apostle who rested at jesus’s bosom was often associated with a third gender in medieval thought bc of his associations with certain prayer practices).

many early transmasculine saints came to be venerated though transfeminine ones died in obscurity.

some might argue that the whole system of holy orders inherently represents a patriarchal sort of authority, and i can kinda see it but i ignore it bc everyone more protestant than me is scary. i will say that i think that many wrongly perceive of the role of bishop. i do think the conception that runs core to the infallible papacy leaves behind the kenotic inverted kingship of Christ.

all of this is disconnected and disorganized but this is genuinely the kinda stuff that bounces around in my head all day. i don’t really move from christianity bc if i converted to another religion i would be extremely christian about it and my sisters who build individual syncretic belief systems seem a little untethered imo.