Katharine Bushnell lived from 1856 to 1946. She was a doctor, a
missionary, an advocate for those without other advocates, and a
theologian. Her commitment to the authority of Scripture was
strong. About the Bible she said, “No other basis of procedure
is available for us.” She learned Greek and Hebrew, and was
particularly interested in applying her knowledge of biblical
languages to understanding what the Bible had to say about
gender. She spoke seven languages. Author and theologian Mimi
Haddad (where I first learned about Bushnell, via this PDF
article) writes about her: Bushnell grounds the ontological
equality of men and women first in the early chapters of Genesis
where, according to Bushnell, we learn that Adam and Eve were
both created in the image of God, that Adam and Eve were both
equally called to be frutiful and to exercise dominion in Eden,
that Eve was not the source of sin, and that God does not curse
women because of Eve. Bushnell began a hospital of pediatrics in
Shanghai, was part of the W