Book of Essays 2 : Chapter 9 Summary and Analysis

It is worth making a few remarks to contrast the perspective of the reader with that of the author's position in the context of history and culture. The reality that the current German Chancellor is a woman recently elected in the very dawn of the 21st century means the Queen of England, Elizabeth II is no longer the only woman on top in Europe. There are rarely Catholic women priests and this is still a point of contention within the Catholic Church, but many of the Protestant churches have accepted women clerics - in some cases this has been a reality for a century, in some cases a few decades. Both Catholic Christianity and Protestant Christianity are found in the nations of modern Europe, but this has come with tremendous political pressure to practice mutual...