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Extract – The Myth of Eve

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

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Extract – Daly’s Community of Realised eschatology

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

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Extract – Daly on the Fall into New Being

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

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Extract – Naming the Sins of the Fathers (Mary Daly)

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

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Extract – Ruether on the Fall

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

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Extract – The Montanist Prophets and Feminism

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

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Extract – Reimagining God as Wisdom (Rosemary Ruether)

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

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Extract – God as Wisdom (Sophia)

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

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Lesson Discussion – Evaluate this View

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

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Starter Task – Bible on Women’s Roles

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

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