Christianity 2a Flashcards
What is the spec content
nowledge and understanding of religion and belief
Religious concepts - the nature of God: Is God male?
The issue of male language about God;
the pastoral benefits and challenges of the model of Father;
Sallie McFague and God as mother.
Can God suffer?
The impassibility of God;
the modern view of a suffering God illustrated by Jurgen Moltmann (The Crucified God).
God as Father
In the new testament, the concept God as Father combined two separate ideas what are they
God as Creator of the world - involving a sense of Lordship (John 1:3 implies Jesus was creator as well)/
The relationship between God and Jesus - when Jesus referred to God as his Father, he used the intimate term ‘Abba’ best translated ‘Daddy’ - and encouraged his followers to do the same. This emphasised a personal and loving relationship.
There are several passages in the old and new testament that portray God in female terms how much if the terms can u remember
Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you. (Isaiah 49:15)
As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you (Isaiah 66:13)
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. (Matthew 23:37)
Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Doesn’t she light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it? And when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbours together and says, “Rejoice with me; I have found my lost coin.” 10 In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.’ (Luke 15:8-10)
Other passages clearly urge caution in our imagery
God is spirit, and his worshippers must worship in the Spirit and in truth, (John 4:24)
So, God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:27)
There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you
Christ Jesus
Sally mc fugue is a
Eco feminist theologian
Sally mc fague wrote
Metaphorical theology models of God in religious language
Sally argues all language about God is
Metaphorical
Sally says that metaphors can easily turn into
Idols
Why all metaphors limited
They all become outdated as culture changes
Sally believes that metaphors hold what power
To shape how we view life
What specification did Sally say we should meet when choosing metaphors we are using
According to the Times and situations we live in
What is the example of everest
First scaling of Mount everest was called conquest of everest in the west where as the east wrote the befriending of everest.
What is meant by the everest example
The tone of language is so markedly different and reflects and fosters very different attitudes to the environment.
Sally says metaphors are essential for theology because
God is beyond our language
Metaphors are not what or what
True or false
Metaphors should do what
Startle and capture our attention
How have metaphors turned into models
Become established models by reminding ubiquitous though consistent use
Mcfague see this approach to be between fundamentalism and deconstructionism what does that mean
There is only a metaphor that can stir a middle path
What does Sally argue that we are living
Where everything is increasingly seen as inter-related. Word used in different areas of study ae connected. Decision-making is moving away from treating everything as “things’
In a nuclear age. We have reached a point in history where we can wipe out birth. We can kill nature. This is a scary world and the threat of nuclear war/disaster is still here.
In an age of worn-out metaphors. She insists that we need anti-hierarchical metaphors today.
What is the central metaphor of Christianity as argues by Sally
Triumphalist, monarchal and patriarchal
Metaphors are unhelpful in a world facing
Disaster and misuses of power over the weak
What kind if mentality does Sally say metaphors breed
Escapism and militarism
What is escapism defined by sally
Hoping God will save us
What is militarism defined by sally
Give up or conquer
What is sallys first point
There is the problem of God as father
Sally does not dislike father as much but rejects
Almighty father
Why does Sally reject almighty father
Makes father powerful patriarchal judgemental and a figure of authority rather than playful and kind (abba)
Mcfague argues that the patriarchal form is a form if
Idolatry in the light if genesis 1:27 I which God is referred to as both male and female
Central metaphor of Christianity?
Triumphalist, monarchical, patriarchal (according to McFague)
McFague’s critique of “Almighty Father”?
Patriarchal, judgmental, distant, unapproachable
Difference between “female” and “feminine”?
Female is not the same as feminine; feminine is culturally determined
