St. Clement of Alexandria: “Woman has the same spiritual dignity as man.” AD 198

St. Clement of Alexandria (150 CE — bet. 211 and 215) – Christian apologist and missionary theologian to the Hellenistic (Greek cultural) world, and second known leader and teacher of the catechetical School of Alexandria. The most important of his surviving works is a trilogy comprising the Protreptikos (“Exhortation”), the Paidagōgos (“Instructor”), and the Strōmateis (“Miscellanies”).

Clement of Alexandria (c. 150 – c. 215) Head of the Catechetical School of Alexandria

“Woman has the same spiritual dignity as man. Both of them have the same God, the same Teacher, the same Church. They breathe, see, hear, know, hope, and love in the same way. Beings who have the same life, grace and salvation are called … to the same manner of being.”

~ from: Paedagogus, 1,4

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