Gender Equality: Theological and Ethical Issues
Gender equality The debate on gender equality has today become a subject at the heart of Christian, ethical and democratic values and is gaining more and more audience and visibility throughout the world. First promoted by feminist theologians, it starts from a distorted conception of equality between the sexes and a desire to "liberate" the individual from any normative framework given by nature, tradition, revelation and God himself. [1] In general, this thought school seeks to advance and understand the equality of men and women morally, socially, functionally, ontologically, spiritually and in matters of leadership from a democratic perspective. [2] In other words, women are totally equal to men in their status before God, in society, and in their importance in family and church. Also called gender theory or egalitarianism, the idea of gender equality first appeared in the 1990s in the United States. The feminist reinterpretation of monotheistic traditions was t...