Gender and Theology

Question 1

What does feminist Mary daly seek?

Answer 1

female dominance

Question 2

What would feminist like rosemary radford seek?

Answer 2

equality of the sexes

Question 3

Why did Mary Daly abandon the church entirely after attempting to reform?

Answer 3

inherently sexist and patriarchal

Question 4

What does Mary Daly describe herself as?

Answer 4

Radical Lesbian Feminist

Question 5

What is Mary Daly’s famous quote?

Answer 5

‘if God is male then male is God’

Question 6

What does Mary Daly believe that Christianity has done?

Answer 6

‘ripped off, reduced and reverse female traditions’

Question 7

Why does she believe the bible is inherently sexist in the first place?

Answer 7

-written by men to legitimize male superiority
-language is male dominated encouraged to use male pronouns and male imagery
-incarnate of Jesus male serves sexism worse views women as inferior

Question 8

What are examples of old theologians being sexist?

Answer 8

Tertullian- women are the devils gateway
Augustine- women aren’t even made in god image
Aquinas-women are misbegotten

Question 9

What are modern theologians being sexist?

Answer 9

Bon- bereaves women subject to husband
berth- subordinate to men
pop pius-women only mothers

Question 10

What did Mary believe should happen with religion?

Answer 10

transevaluation of phallic values

Question 11

What does the castration of God mean?

Answer 11

The abolition of the word God because its not enough to replace with female words as there will still be a male essence

Question 12

What must we rediscover?

Answer 12

pagan nature religions which held mother nature as essnetial

Question 13

What is old language?

Answer 13

androcentric

Question 14

what would reclaiming the arcahic language do?

Answer 14

reconnect them with there ancient relationship with nature

Question 15

What does Mary Daly believe women once had?

Answer 15

a spiritual relationship with nature that the patriarchal cultures destroyed.

Question 16

What would be the only way women are liberated?

Answer 16

abandon christnity and favour mother nature religions

Question 17

What existed long before the holy trinity?

Answer 17

Triple Godesses

Question 18

What did she believe should replace God?

Answer 18

Be-ing the verb

Question 19

What is Be-ing?

Answer 19

a spiritual process of the discovery of the richness of nature.

Question 20

What is the goal of life?

Answer 20

to become your authentic self.

Question 21

What is the word Daly uses to show women connecting to there true selfs?

Answer 21

Quintessence

Question 22

Why did she believe women are superior?

Answer 22

-women can only access sprituality in nature
-men are corrupted so cannot attain true spirtuality

Question 23

What would directly go against Daly’s view that women are superior?

Answer 23

many female Christians and saints who have flourished whiteout this view.

Question 24

What does the unholy trinity consist of?

Answer 24

Rape genocide and war

Question 25

Explain Rape.

Answer 25

-all men are rapist wither it is literally or metaphorically -for example by watching pornography they enhance there sense of power -and in biblical writing they make rape seem as if its Normal

Question 26

What biblically supports her idea of rape?

Answer 26

city of Sodom the dad offers the daughters and the daughters rape the dad

Question 27

What is biblical evidence of a link of rape and war?

Answer 27

After mosses tells his soldiers to spare the women he says to kill those who aren't virgin and keep the virgins to themselves

Question 28

What does Mary describe mary as?

Answer 28

'total rape vicitm' and a 'hollow eggshell' as she was impregnated by God to give birth to the sone of God she was used so a male could achieve there Goal

Question 29

How do men dominate women in terms of genocide?

Answer 29

sexual caste system

Question 30

What is Genocide?

Answer 30

feeling power and supremacy over other

Question 31

Why do men commit genocide?

Answer 31

men feel the need to be violent

Question 32

Where does war come from?

Answer 32

'phallic morality' and 'phallic mentality'

Question 33

Explain War?

Answer 33

-the bible supports war -inconsistency and hypocrisy where war is just but condemns other compassionate forms of killing such as abortion euthanasian

Question 34

What are three forms of saying Wisdom?

Answer 34

Hokhma-hebrew Sophia- female Logos- male

Question 35

In ancient times how was wisdom?

Answer 35

Personified in a female form of a goddess

Question 36

What type of scriptura used Sofia?

Answer 36

Proverbs 8

Question 37

How is the holy spirit depicted?

Answer 37

In feminine terms such as her or she

Question 38

How does St paul support her idea?

Answer 38

Jesus was referred to as the wisdom of God he was called logos male equivalent of Sophia

Question 39

What does Rosemary believed happen to Christianity?

Answer 39

Female wisdom principle has been lost in modern Christianity

Question 40

How does Rosemary explain Jesus being male?

Answer 40

He was biologically male but not essntially male which means he didnt have to be it so happens he was

Question 41

What did Modern Christianity make Jesus?

Answer 41

Male warier Messiah

Question 42

What is an example in terms of violance about what was expected from Jesus vs what he did?

Answer 42

expectations: would be a military leader freeing the Jews from slavery and oppressions done by the romans Reality: Jesus took a much more peaceful stance rejecting any kind of valance

Question 43

How did Jesus Oppose the patriarchal idea of men being warriors?

Answer 43

By Jesus referring to God in more familiar terms such as 'Abba'

Question 44

Explain Egalitarianism

Answer 44

-Jesus's relationship with God was based on trust and respect -referred to God as Abba -Early Christians use this as a model

Question 45

What does In persona christi mean?

Answer 45

In the person of christ

Question 46

What was Rosemary a strong advocate of in terms of ordination?

Answer 46

female ordination

Question 47

What is male ordination?

Answer 47

Only men could be ordained as only they can represent christ

Question 48

What is Rosemary aiming to do?

Answer 48

-to feel a connection with the [erson there praying to God/Jesus -may feel alienated in the ence that if Jesus was just male he wouldn't understand how women feel