Gender And Theology Flashcards
“If ____ is God then _____ is ______”
“If male is God then God is male” - MARY DALY
“If ____ is God then _____ is ______”
“If male is God then God is male” - MARY DALY
Instead of God as a noun God should be a ______
Verb, Daly
God should be “castrated” and referred to as a ______
She, Mary Daly
God should not be a noun because
Verbs are beyond masculine and feminine, Mary Daly
God should not be a noun because
Verbs are beyond masculine and feminine, Mary Daly
The Unholy Trinity is a result of ______
Oppressive hierarchy where women are below men, Daly
“Kill all male children” and “women who have laid with a man” and take their “young virgin girls for your own”
Moses, proof of war, rape and genocide, support Daly
Liberal Christian have a more ________ view of the Bible, and that Christianity is _______
Symbolic, redeemable
R_____ R______ is a _______ Christian
Rosemary Ruether is a Liberal Christian
Daly’s response to Liberal Christians
Fewer take it literally, lots are still influenced by the view that women are inferior by it
Hampson’s development of Daly’s response to Liberal Christians
Value of Bible affects subconscious outlook long term
Sisterhood is the unity of “______ ______”
Sexual caste, Daly
Sisterhood would replace Christian need for _________ fulfilment of the functions of religion without __________
Spiritual, patriarchy, Daly
Sister hood is “anti____”, no _______ or ______
Anti church, hierarchy, dogmas, anti priest, Daly
Women need a ______ space from the _______ to ______ and _____
Sacred, evolve and heal
“Men need to stop _____ on the ______ and ______ of women, sapping the energy at the expense of ______ _____”
Men need to stop feeding on the minds and bodies of women, sapping the energy at the expense of female death - Daly
Spiritual and knowledgable abilities are _____ to men’s
Superior, Daly
Christianity is distorted by the patriarchy and needs ________
Ruether, reformation
Women, contraception and abortion - nothing to do with _________
Religion, Controlled by male society, Ruether
Phaelic Ethic
Gender socially constructed, sexist church, patriarchy, worship of male, Daly
Davidic Messiah traits
What people thought Jesus would be, warrior, liberator of people, chosen by God, Future king
Ruether compares the _______ Messiah to Jesus the ________ _____
Davidic, servant king
The Messiah can “only be imagined as male”
Sexism and God talk
Jesus the Servant King traits
Attended the poor, critical of Jewish authorities
God = ______
_______ = feminine
Wisdom
Sophia
Female version of wisdom
Ruether, “Jesus is a ______”
Woman
Ruether believes we have lost the ______ of Jesus
Femaleness
Ruether believes that we are ______ through the _______ ____ of the male Messiah
Obscured patriarchal veil
Chan argues against Ruether’s femaleness of God
To rewrite “central prayers” downplays the “maleness”
Types of Feminist
Radical feminist, reformist feminist
Chan argued that God should never be called ______
God should never be called “mother”
Chan sought that making femininity the _____ is not going to make people ___ ________ because other religions are still ______
Centre, less patriarchal, sexist
Hinduism does not change the _____ of the _______ Indian _____ _____
Sexism, patriarchal, caste system