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This thesis entitled “THE POSITION AND THE ROLE OF WOMAN IN THE
ANCIENT CHURCH AND THEIR RELEVANCE TO WOMAN’S CALL IN THE
CHURCH NOWADAYS” is selected based on the facts. Firstly, calling understand and
recognize the importance of the woman’s role in family, we less the Church and society
up to now; secondly, women have enacted their calling maximally in the church mission,
and thirdly, there is an understanding that the mission the Church in worldwide belongs
to man’s calling, not women is calling.
There are two factors causing the lack of the awareness of the importance of the
woman’s role in family, the Church and society and not maximall women’s enactment
their calling. First is a cultural factor. The role played neither by women nor men
represents a cultural fact. Women are only placed in domestic sides, like managing
household, while men are placed in public sides, like earning a living. Second is
structural factor. Men is domination on women are supported and agreed by social
institutions, for example: family, school, and religious institutions. Finally, mes’s
domination an women expands structurally and causes women, either consciously or
unconsciously, to accept and agree that men’s power over women is fair.
The acknowledgment the equally of men and women same as human beings
possessing mind, opinion and feeling is truly required by woman because for centuries it
has been denied. On the other hand, it must be admitted that the what the women feel and
think are different, because their different role in society and family. The participation of
women in Jesus’ mission represents the basic reason to involve women in the Church’s
mission nowadays.
It is expected by empowering them, women can find its true identity, either in
their family’s life, society or in the Church’s life. Woman enableness this effort of
empowering women are all based on the view and attitude of Jesus on women and Maria,
His Mother in the New Testament. Women’s empowerment can be strived through
People Catecheses with (by) Social Analysis method. People Catechesis as construction
medium and development of faith can be the place of woman clan to seek and find its call
and courier in the Church. People Catechesis with (by) Social Analysis can assist woman
to see critically, analyze and interpret their daily life experience. Through catechesis
woman is expected to be witnesses of resurrection and to proclaim the Liberation.