diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Hannah-More-Prace-article.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | Hannah-More-Prace-article.rst | 67 |
1 files changed, 65 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Hannah-More-Prace-article.rst b/Hannah-More-Prace-article.rst index fa66975..f8fff59 100644 --- a/Hannah-More-Prace-article.rst +++ b/Hannah-More-Prace-article.rst @@ -1,8 +1,71 @@ We Can Be Heroes or Women of Faith in the Post-Biblical era =========================================================== -There are obviously too many women of faith to consider any of -them individually as the typical representative of all of them +We all have spent last couple of weeks following this series +of awesome sermons about remarkable people of faith. I first +thought that my task is the hardest one, to find one exceptional +woman among millions of those who followed Jesus Christ in the +post-Biblical times, but when listening to those sermons, it +feels like not alone. Each one of us had a different task to pick +one person from large set of candidates. However, I still believe +that my task might be the most difficult one. Not only I am one +of two preachers with the longest time period to pick from, but +also the position of women was quite different during the ages +than the one of men. + +There are number of interesting and famous women of faith during +the centuries I could mention: Saint Macrina, Hildegard of +Bingen, Saint Clare, if I wanted to be a Czech patriot, Saint +Agnes of Bohemia, or Catherine of Siena, Hadewijch and Mechthild +of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, who willing put down her life +for her persuasion, and that’s just me getting into the Middle +Ages, there were of course many many others, and I should not +ignore the modern female saints like Mother Teresa of Calcutta +or Sophie Scholl. I could also stop and talk about Katharina +von Bora, a Protestant patron saint of pastors’ wives., or +Idelette de Bure, a poor wife of the Swiss reformer, Jean Calvin, +forgotten in life and mostly forgotten afterwards as well. + +In the end, I have not chosen either of them. While thinking +about them and all other women throughout the ages, it occurred +to me how different is the male and female style of service, +and how these famous women were different from most other women +in their time. Most (not all) of them were quite extraordinary +themselves: daughters of kings, highest nobility, or otherwise +extraordinary women, not sharing their fate with their less +fortunate sisters. However, I believe, that those other women, +who were completely forgotten, have a huge lesson to teach +everyone of us these days, both men and women. + +I was thinking how for a man, it is typical when seeing a problem +to be resolved, our first instinct is to get power so we can +control things and change them. And it really doesn’t matter +whether these are man we now mostly hate like Adolf Hitler or +Vladimir Lenin, and their ends were terrible, or people who +we adore, like Martin Luther King or perhaps in some weird +sense Gándhí. Even when they didn’t even fight for power for +themselves, and even if that power was not the formal one (like +in the case of Mr King), their first instinct was the same: +acquire the power and then use it for good. And too often it +ended up with that acquisition of power, and good ends were +forgotten. + +For centuries, for millennia, women never had even an opportunity +to behave in such way, and they had to develop their own strategy +how to deal with the pain of the world as they see it (and many +men, often the most successful ones, learned that lesson as +well). + +---- + +I was thinking a lot about + +.. Problem ... inability to fix them ... depression ... how to deal + with it? + +----- + +.. https://youtu.be/-k3ABfmCr2I?t=56 Boromir TOO LONG Moreover, most of them, given the ever-present misogyny of the time, are hidden behind the much more famous men |