144-154):īecause Jesus, the twelve apostles, Paul, and the prominent leaders in the early church in Jerusalem were all men, the impression prevails that early Christianity was primarily a male affair. Rodney Stark offers the evidence in his book The Triumph of Christianity (p. And this played out quite clearly in the early church. Christianity placed new obligations on husbands for the treatment of their wives and daughters. Though the Bible teaches complementary roles in marriage, it elevated the status of women in marriage, placing equal value on each spouse. And this was in stark contrast to the treatment of women in literally any other culture and religion at that time. Christianity values all humans equally, and the behavior and practices of the early church demonstrate that women were valued just as highly as men.
Critics of Christianity consider it a patriarchal religion that relegates women to “second class citizens” at best.
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