Figlie e figli di Dio.

Compendio di uno studio sulle relazioni fra donne e uomini alla luce dell’uguaglianza battesimale

Abstract

This contribution summarises the results of a doctoral research on the relation between women and men. The paper, which begins by listening to the voice of the women who stood out in modern times and from the critical study of the way in which the Catholic Church reacted, puts forth a hypothesis in order to overcome the difficulties which have emerged (and still persist today) founded on the reality of baptism. In this way one arrives at the articulation of the radical equality between men and women – derived from the mystical union of believers in Christ – with their differences (also sexual) understood in a non-discriminatory but charismatic sense, overcoming the violence which still describes their relationship. Such an eschatological perspective, sought in the Scriptures (Paul, Genesis, Song of Songs, the Gospels), permits us to shed light on some anthropological, ecclesiological and theological debates brought up by feminism.