Augustine believes the woman's sole function is to bear children: Paganism has entered the Church P/3

                                                      Read Part One HERE

In this post I will compare a statement from the Pagan Greek Philosopher Aristotle with a statement from Roman Catholic Church Father Augustine.

Aristotle has said the following:

The male is by nature superior and the female inferior, and the one rules and the other is ruled.

Augustine has said the following:

When the woman is assigned as a helpmate, a function pertaining to her alone, she is not in the image of God.
I cannot think of any reason for a woman being made a man's helper, if we dismiss the reason of procreation.

My comment

From the above statements we can learn that the Roman Catholic Church Father Augustine's thinking was very like that of the pagan Greek philosopher Aristotle when discussing the roles of men and women. It is very obvious, therefore, that Augustine was very influenced by past cultures in his understanding of the word of God as it is related to that particular subject, which in turn would have influenced the view of the Roman Catholic Church on the roles of men and women.

 

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