Gender And Theology

Question 1

What is a nuclear family?

Answer 1

A family consisting of an adult male and female with one or more children.

Question 2

What is a warrior messiah in Jewish tradition?

Answer 2

Someone to defeate the romans and bring the rule of god on earth.

Question 3

What is Sophia?

Answer 3

Greek word referring to the female wisdom principle.

Question 4

What is thealogy?

Answer 4

Reflection on the Devine as feminine and using feminine terminology, associated with goddess

Question 5

What is Christianity’s unholy trinity?

Answer 5

Daly said it was rape, genocide and war

Question 6

What did daly replace god with and why?

Answer 6

Be-ing, god has many male connotations and just changing the pronouns or saying goddess wont change this.

Question 7

What did daly say quintessence was?

Answer 7

The highest level of spirituality found in nature, it can be blocked by pornography, violence and poverty.

Question 8

Why did Jesus challenge the warrior messiah expectation?

Answer 8

• he sacrifice himself
• served his people (washed his desiples feet)
• not a military leader
• ABBA

Question 9

What does ruether say about Sophia?

Answer 9

It was present in the Old Testament and has been lost in modern Christianity and replaced with logos.

Question 10

What did Ruether believe about the ‘maleness’ of Jesus?

Answer 10

It was not essential as Sophia can be found in johns portrayal of Jesus, it was just chance he was male.

Question 11

‘If god is male, then male is god’

Answer 11

Daly- we should leave establish practices behind, ‘god’ has male connotations and is putting men on an undeserving pedistool. God should be castrated.
Aquinas- misbegotten males

Question 12

What were the 3 components to Mary Daly’s ‘unholy trinity’?

Answer 12

Rape
Genocide
War

Question 13

What did daly say about rape as part of the unholy trinity?

Answer 13

• culture of rape
• Virgin Mary- ‘total rape victim’
• judges- man gave away his daughter and concubine
• armchair rapists- objectifying women through watching porn.
• rape of nature- deforestation.

Question 14

What is daly say about genocide as part of the unholy trinity?

Answer 14

• It’s an extension of rape on a society level.

- not allowing contecepion and abortion is mass genocide.

Question 15

What is daly say about war as part of the unholy trinity?

Answer 15

• A result of ‘phallic mentality’
• killing a born human, just. Killing an unborn human, unjust.
• media covers and male leaders in the church cover up the horrors of war to make it seem more desirable.

Question 16

Who said ‘the incarnation of Christ is ‘the symbolic legitimation of the rape of all women and all matter’’ and what does it mean

Answer 16

Daly
God become a man meant the rape of Mary, showing the using and exploitation of women and men calling it a miracle in the church.