Sunday, November 20, 2011
Layner vs. Spreght
In From Dalve Deus Rex Judaeorum Aemilia Lanyer addressed the issue of Gender. Her argument is that men need to stop holding a grudge against women because of Eve's decision of eating the forbidden fruit and deceiving Adam to also eat it. In turn she holds a grudge against the men by saying that it is their fault for killing Christ and his apostles. My question is, is she really being the more mature and bigger person by pegging this horrible incident on men? Yes, Eve did eat the fruit first but Adam and Eve did not realize the sin till they had both consumed the fruit. This leads me to Spreght's view on gender. She believed that both men and women were responsible for the sin in the world. I believe that she would respond to Lanyer's argument of it being men's fault for killing Christ as a fallible argument. Spreght would say that it is not one specific gender's fault, instead it is everyone's fault because both male and female are fallen. When it comes to the gender issue, I still side with Spreght. Layner's argument is a little more on target compared to Swetnam, but Spreght saw the equality in both genders.
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