Uguaglianza battesimale e differenze carismatiche

l pensiero della differenza sessuale nella tradizione paolina (II)

Abstract

The Pauline perspective – explored in the previous article – has enabled the articulation of the baptismal equality of believers (and potentially of all people) with the recognition of their differences, understood in a charismatic sense. Based on this preposition, the present contribution investigates these dimensions, focusing on the relationship between women and men at the ori-gins of Christianity, through the study of two areas highly meaningful to the extent that both Paul and the subsequent Pauline literature have directly considered them: common prayer and married life. In this sense, the first letter to the Corinthians (11,2-16; 14,33b-36 e 7,1-9.39-40), the letter to the Ephesians (5,21-33) and the first letter to Timothy (2,8-15) express a develop-ment described and interpreted above all in its ecclesial repercussions, both past and present.