Developments in Christian Thought

Here is the OCR specification with hyperlinks applied to make it easy for you to resource the suggested reading. Scroll down and you will find my comments designed…

5. Society: Gender and society The relationship between religion and society, including issues such as how religions adapt when encountering different…

Rosemary Ruether is a radical feminist theologian who has tried to stay within the Christian church whist disagreeing fundamentally with patriarchal…

The Map below can be used to unpack the logic of Mary Daly’s words, by clicking on the underlined hyperlinks. These…

Here is my list of possible future exam questions on this area of the specification. Note than any question in the…

Gender and Theology Background Paradoxically, Christianity presents itself as a prophetic movement of liberation and belief in a new heaven and…

Critically compare Daly’s and Ruether’s teaching on God (34/40, Grade A) Fundamentally, both Ruether and Daly are trying to promote and…

The following Bible verses (and in one case, their interpretation) indicates a tension in Scripture between the Judaic patriarchal view in…

source Here is an extract from an anti-feminist website, arguing that you can’t both believe in biblical Christianity and be a…

The Feminist Theology of Rosemary Ruether: A Challenge to Pope Francis James J. Bacik To receive my Sunday Meditations, send your…

In this clip Dr Matthew Taylor gives an interpretation of Genesis chapter 3 through the eyes of Thomas Aquinas, This veiw…

Here is the opening part of an article by Rosemary Ruether which illustrates quite well how she appeals to the prophetic/liberating…

source 1. Ruether’s Criticism: Christians appropriated the Jewish idea of the Messiah and applied it to Jesus without keeping its social…

source There are critical elements in Hebrew monotheism that should have and can mitigate against the identification of monotheism with only…

source In a longer article available online (above link), Denise Ackerman discusses Ruether’s criticism of the way the myth of the…

source Sophia A Greek word for wisdom used in Aristotelean thought to mean ‘the unifying wisdom that comes from understanding fully…

source In her report on her visit to Lima, where she met leaders from the Women’s Ecumenical Round Table and the…

Isaiah presents a vision of people and a land redeemed from oppression and violence – a new age of well-being. Part…

source Montanus lived in the Phrygian area of Asia Minor at the end of the 2nd Century AD. He declared that…

source classical theism in turn reinforced and sanctioned the philosophical valorization of mind, reason, and male over and against body, passion,…

Commentary and Introduction Mulieris Dignitatem (the Dignity of Women) explains a Catholic Response to the Women’s movement as it entered its…

Ephesians 5:22-33 – New International Version (NIV) 22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord….

The syllabus suggests we study Ephesians 5 (see previous extract “wives obey your husbands”) and then the two extracts below.  …

Patriarchal anthropology has come perilously close to seeing women as the cause of sin in the world. From ancient to modern…

source The creative, celebratory and critical process is Spinning. The term aptly captures the spiralling motion, the dizziness one might feel…

source From Stanford Encyclopedia, Feminist Philosophy of Religion, by Mary Frankelbury, Dartmouth College The early Daly carved out a philosophy of…

source A principal agenda of Daly’s philosophical project is to reveal the structures and myths within patriarchy which degrade all, but…

source Here is a comment on Chapter 2 of Beyond God the Father. The whole book is available online by clicking…

source Daly’s response to this question is drawn from Tillich. Women must find the courage to be. This entails a new…

Mary Daly expropriates ancient myths such as the myth of Prometheus and reworks them to encourage the creative force within the…

The following letter was written to Mary Daly, author of Gyn/Ecology,* on May 6, 1979. Four months later, having received no…

source Rosemary Ruether (1985:65) says that traditional Christian dualism originated partly in ancient Greece from the metaphysical theories of Plato and…

source The origin of social hierarchies, and the social and political position that women held throughout the ages, plays a major…

source Daphne Hampson (2002: xiv) rejects Christianity because she believes that feminism and Christianity are not compatible and that the Christian…

PREMISE / Volume II, Number 8 / September 27, 1995 / Page 12 Paul Ricoeur and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion: A…

Christology and Feminism:Can a Male Saviour Save Women ? by Rosemary Radford Ruether From To change the World, Crossroad, New York…

source Hermeneutics Hermeneutics is not only a key issue in feminist theology but also the area in which it has to…

THEOLOGICAL METHOD source http://scriptoriumdaily.com/mary-daly-1928-2010-radical-feminist-theologian/ Daly hates method. She calls for the end of “methodolatry, in which a preconceived system dictates the choices…

source Mary Daly and Paul Tillich In her dissertation on The Problem of Speculative Theology, Daly argues in favour of speculative…

“Patriarchy perpetuates its deception through myth” Mary Daly How can we be saved? Daly’s response to this question is drawn from…

Mary Daly and the Male Saviour JM Wood In Daly’s discussion on the doctrine of Jesus, she claims that it confirms…

The Androgyny of Jesus Virginia Mollencott source Radical feminist theologians feel that Christianity is so corruptly patriarchal that the entire system…

Tradition, Hermeneutics, and Ordination By Francine Cardman from Sexism and Church Law edited by James A. Coriden 1977, pp. 58-81 published…