Was Saint Paul a Mysoginist?

Down through the centuries Saint Paul has, in many ways, had a very bad press.One of things that he's often been accused of is that of being a mysoginist, an anti-woman figure .

But, says scripture scholar, Mark Coleridge , Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn, what needs to be done is to read Paul's Letters and not just skim them: "When we press the evidence. .what you come up with is the insight that far from being a mysoginist Paul was in fact a man who founded and nurtured communities in which women exercised a kind of counter cultural leadership, or at least had a kind of counter cultural position...."

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