God's Love

The Feminine

Is there something inherently eternal in our masculinity and our femininity?

If we believe in the resurrection, do we believe we will be raised as 'neuter' beings?

I know that my masculinity is ontologically foundational to who I am as a person, whether I procreate or not.

As far as the dignity of the human person is concerned its imperitive to understand that such an integral aspect of our nature has eternal legitimacy.

Whether its apocryphal or not I don't know, but there's a story that the Church once had a Synod that came to the conclusion that women did in fact have souls.

But emotional reactions aside, where the dominant Western paradigms (both scientific and feminist) confine sexuality to merely a biological necessity, Christianity does assert that women are not women in body only.

I submit that all created reality exists within the speaking hearing dynamic of a Holy Flow of Word from the Father perceived by the feminine Wisdom.  A dynamic whose archetype is the perichoretic love of the Trinity.

The scriptures validate femininity as foundationally linked to God's Alpha in the Divine Wisdom at Creation, and eternally linked to God's Omega in the Bride of Christ.

See St Augustine on Women and the Resurrection