Monday, July 10, 2006

My Kind Of Feminist

Mark Noll writes in the Wall Street Journal concerning the King James version of the Bible and it's influence on American culture. In so doing, he describes those feminists whom I respect:

In the 1890s Elizabeth Cady Stanton and other aggrieved feminists published
"The Woman's Bible" in an effort to counter interpretations of Scripture that
had done women harm. When they asked others to comment, Frances Willard of the
Women's Christian Temperance Union made a telling response: "No such woman, as
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, with her heart aflame against all forms of injustice and of cruelty . . . has ever been produced in a country where the Bible was not incorporated into the thoughts and the affections of the people and had not been so during many generations."

1 comment:

Teresa said...

Well. Interesting. I doubt I'm your kind of feminist ;).