Origen’s Revenge

Is the difference of male and female to be "completely shaken off" so that men and women are no longer men and women but merely human beings? The great seventh-century saint Maximus the Confessor said yes, but such thinking is difficult if not impossible to reconcile with much else in Christian tradition that obliges men and women to live as either men or women.Origen's Revenge contrasts the two main sources of early Christian thinking on male and female: the generally negative view of Greek phi