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…
Read MoreExtract – 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…
Read MoreExtract – 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…
Read MoreExtract – 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…
Read MoreExtract – 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…
Read MoreExtract – 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…
Read MoreExtract – 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…
Read MoreLesson 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…
Read MoreStarter 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…
Read MoreExtract – Dualisms in Religious Thought
source classical theism in turn reinforced and sanctioned the philosophical valorization of mind, reason, and male over and against body, passion,…
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