Gender and theology Flashcards
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What is Daly’s Unholy Trinity?
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- Rape
- Genocide
- War
2
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What did Augustine suggest about women?
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Suggested women aren’t made in God’s image
3
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What did Martin Luther suggest about women?
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God created Adam as Lord of All, but Eve spoiled this
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What did Tertullian suggest about women?
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- Women are responsible for the Fall
- They’re the reason God needed to send Jesus to save us
5
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Who did Daly criticise?
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- Bonhoeffer - Daly accused Bonhoeffer of insisting women should be subject to their husbands
- Fletcher - Criticised situation ethics of being a man-made theory
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What did Daly claim about the relationship between God and masculinity?
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- The association between divinity and male supremacy makes it seem like a fact of the universe
- ‘If God is male, then male is God’
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How does Daly challenge the maleness of God?
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- Views God as a verb, since verbs are beyond masculine and feminine description. It also allows people to see that an unjust state of being is not fixed and can be changed
- God needs to be castrated by referring to God as a “she”
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What Biblical evidence does Daly use to say that Christianity is irredeemably sexist?
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- Eve as the source of sin
- Ephesians 5:22 “Wives submit to your husbands as you do the Lord”
- 1TImothy 2:12 “I do not permit a woman to teach or assume authority over a man; she must be quiet.”
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How is Christianity directly involved in the Unholy Trinity?
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- Numbers
- Moses is involved in a campaign of war and says “Spare the lives only of the young girls who have not slept with a man, and take them for yourselves.”
10
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What is the Sisterhood of Feminism?
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- What Daly proposed should replace Christianity’s spiritual function
- Women liberating themselves from their divisions (like Catholic vs Protestant)
- Anti-Church, with no hierarchy or dogma
- A sacred space to escape and heal from patriarchy
- Patriarchal oppression has prevented the growth of women
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What do some argue that Daly is advocating?
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Female supremacy, which is equally dangerous to male supremacy
12
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What is patriachalization?
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- The process where misogynistic views overtake and dominate
- Reuther claims this is what happened to Christianity, so Christianity can be reformed
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