Conference "Women and Philosophy. Women in Ancient Christianity (2nd-4th Centuries)"

By Xosé Díaz, Professor of Philosophy The submission that women accepted during ancient Christianity was not always the same nor was it modulated in the same way. We know, and we have witnesses, of the active presence of women during the first centuries of the expansion of Christianity. Deaconesses, apostles, preachers, evangelists, holy women, martyrs, hermits or nuns, their presence was fundamental for the social and ideological construction of Christianity. It is …