"A Christian Innovation: Women as Types of Christ"

About This Event

Prof. Catherine Brown Tkacz, Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine

Before Jesus appeared, only men of the Old Testament had been thought to prefigure the Messiah. In the first century, Christians began to interpret women as types of Christ. Susanna was the first and most important of nine such women, others being Jephthah’s daughter, Esther, Jael, the widow of Zarephath, and Judith. Setting forth their traditions recovers a strong affirmation of women which is basic to Christianity.

Prof. Catherine Brown Tkacz is Research Professor of Theology at the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Lviv. She has lectured in the U.S., England, Germany and Ukraine, mainly on women in the Church. Her research includes contemplating the Incarnation in light of reproductive science and genetics, and studies of women in the Bible and Christian tradition.

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“Mulier Fortis: Women Scholars on Women in the Early Church” is a series of free public lectures in honor of Prof. Patrick James Hartin, a priest of the Diocese of Spokane and Professor Emeritus of the Department of Religious Studies at Gonzaga University. The lecture series began in 2016 with three lectures on “The Church and Her Scriptures” and will continue in 2018.

The Gonzaga University Faith and Reason Institute is dedicated to developing an integrationist understanding of faith and reason through a philosophical investigation into both the nature and results of scientific research and through critical discussion and reflection on topics in philosophical theology.