![]() ![]() The result was to weaken women’s role in the church, not to see them as Jesus had, the group whom he trusted and who were most loyal to him throughout his life. ![]() In fact, as Egan writes, Pope Gregory the Great called Mary Magdalene a whore, a made-up story. But these gospels are not included in the official biblical canon. Mary Magdalene, according to the Gnostic Gospel, was Jesus’ girlfriend, whom he kissed on the lips and who some scholars argue wrote her own book and testament to Jesus, as rich and full as any by Matthew, Mark, Luke or John. It is women who take Jesus down from the cross, and the same women who discover him missing from the tomb, rising as the living God. He argues with the woman at the well at a time when women weren’t considered educated. I particularly appreciated his recognition that Jesus could easily be seen as the first feminist it was the institutional church that feared women. ![]() Luckily Egan has the imagination to evoke the magic he once felt. Tracing an ancient pilgrimage route from Canterbury to Rome, the bestselling and virtuosic (The Wall Street Journal) writer explores the past and future of. ![]()
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