Sayings Fr. John Meyendorff ~ St. Mary (Theotokos) & Institutional Feminism

 

   There is no doubt in my mind that the Protestant rejection of the veneration of Mary and its various consequences (such as, for example, the really "male-dominated" Protestant worship, deprived of sentiment, poetry and intuitive mystery-perception) is one of the psychological reasons which explains the recent emergence of institutional feminism.

~  Fr John Meyendorff

quote from:

from Man, Woman, and Priesthood, pp. 68-90, edited by Peter Moore, SPCK London, 1978.