Theophilus Okere

Handmaid

Women

“A bold but balanced interpretation of the biblical concept doule or handmaid, lifting it from servility before men to faithful servant-hood to God alone, to community leadership and to comradeship with God in his creative and redemptive work. Mary becomes the Lord's woman servant and co-savior of her people, not necessarily the humble, submissive, voiceless virgin or even merely the almost divinized theotokos of Christian tradition, but rather now a participant with God in saving mankind, a partner in effecting the greatest event in history--the Incarnation.”