Gender and theology

Question 1

Ruether general

Answer 1

social reconstructionism RCC

full humanity of women

Question 2

ruehter paras

Answer 2

view of god

• god is against oppressive structures e.g. Luke 4:18-19
• ultimate reality
• Yahweh, isaiah 42 v 13 vs. 4

view of jc
- critical of depiction of JC as warrior. son off god depicted as dcvidic king, reflection of disappointment with kings. h, JC acted like servant. masculinity added by later writers
- logos excludes women. jc is not only male part of go but also incarnation of female wisdom e.g. wisdom of Solomon
+ HS, Xian iconography

tackle sexism

• women church movement
• language is based on apophatic assumption
• god/ess, analogy

Question 3

eval of ruether

Answer 3

\+ trible, hermeneutic of suspicion 
\+ storkey, JC
\+ moltmann, female characteristics 
- chan, cannot rewrite Xian tory 
- Hampson, xianity and fem is incompatible 
- slee, male is still norm

Question 4

daly general

Answer 4

(American radical post-Christian feminist theologian)

• Clear influence of Simone de Beauvoir on her work
• 1999 – refused to allow men in her lectures, dismissed from lectureship

influenced by Nietzsche
appollonian vs. dionsyian
be-ing = creative process.

Question 5

daly

Answer 5

image of god

• if god is male, male is god
• patriarch in sky
• filters into society
• castrate supreme phallus
• change must take place in women

criticises church fathers

• aquinas
• augustine
• • bonhoeffer
• flecher

3 types of gods
- exlanation
otherworldliness
judgemnt

language 
language of transcendence 
current lang is product of patriarchy 
transvaluation 
e.g. spinster

rape genocide war

• rape: JC sacrifice, male enjoyment of pain. Mary is rape victim.
• genocide: church didn’t help jews

spirituality

• quintessence, a being
• embrace paganism
• holy trinity of power justice and love
• lesbian separatism

Question 6

eval of daly

Answer 6

+ bible, judges 19:24
+ christ. replace god with goddess of humanity and nature
+ Hampson
+ ahluwalia, goddess names call ora action
+ tong, ecofeminism
+ starhawk, axiality is beyond repair

• storkey, gal 3
• chan. language does not remove sexism. trinity is for all
• forienza
• soskice
• trible, hermeneutic

Question 7

ruether vs. daly

Answer 7

both recognise patriarchal nature of institutionalise xianity

both use language

daly rejects xianity vs. ruether reconciles it

Question 8

fiorenza

Answer 8

social institutions must be redefined
women have internalised passive attitudes

hemerneutic act. JC. Xian tradition is male

must demand radical change of structures. need everyones help

mary = dichotomy of virgin;/whore as seen in policy on contraception
mary magdalene = depicted as a sinner, first to see JC e.g. Luke 8

Question 9

soskice

Answer 9

trinity = guards androcentrism
Jesus is saviour because he is human, not male

must desexualise language. replace Macs trinity with creator, redeemer, sustainer
emphasise fem features of HS

h… problems, depersonalises etc.