Overview of post-medieval theologians

Overview of post-medieval theologians writing about women

ca 1500 - 1900

The post-medieval theologians either ignored the question of women priests (as an issue they considered settled for good) or indulged in rabid misogyny. See the synopsis on how post-medieval theologians judged women.

Date of publication	Name/author	description
1486	H.Kramer and J.Sprenger	‘The Hammer of Witches’
1500 - 1800	Survey of authors involved in the so-called “Women’s Quarrel”	Books and booklets for and against women
1558	John Knox	Calvinist theologian
1586-1593	Robert Bellarmine	Catholic theologian As Prefect of the Holy Office he condemned Galileo Galilei
1616	Cornelius a Lapide	Scripture scholar
1618	Anonymous	On ‘Whether Women are Human Beings?!’ - debate between a Benedictine and a Jesuit

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