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I genuinely hope this doesn’t come across as sacrilegious, but if women naturally possess Christlike attributes–if, in fact, as Michael Otterson argues, “Stereotypical ‘Female’ Qualities Are Core of What Jesus Taught,”–why was Jesus a man? In a Church that seems to embrace some sort of gender essentialism, what does it mean to that concept of gender that a male Jesus exemplified core female behaviors?

The answer, obviously, lies in the term “stereotypical” and the quotation marks with which Otterson wisely highlights the term “female,” meant, I assume, to call into question the very appropriateness of coding as feminine values which it is incumbent on everyone to cultivate, and whose paragon exemplar is, after all, male. Otterson sensibly concludes by suggesting that these are not exclusively female values at all, but are, in fact, human values.

But Otterson takes his argument no further, although his remarks seem to suggest that our understanding of both femininity and masculinity require some renovation. On the one hand, his brief article is clearly intended to celebrate the status of women within Christianity. Yet on the other, he calls into question the truly “femaleness” of these very qualities. The Gospel of Thomas famously states that “every woman who makes herself male shall ent...
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