Gender and theology ao2

Question 1

1976 Vatican and RRR response

Answer 1

1976 Vatican: “there must be a physical resemblance between priest and Christ

RRR “possession of male genitalia cannot be the essential prerequisite for representing Christ”

Question 2

Bishop of Llandoff

Answer 2

“well when it says keep the women, I’m sure God didn’t mean just to keep them for immoral purposes”

Question 3

Christopher Hitchens

Answer 3

“kill all men, kill all the children, but keep the virgins- I think I know what they had in mind.”

Question 4

Simon De Beauvre

Answer 4

“she gets up while it is still night; she provides food for her family and portions for her female servants”

Question 5

Elizabeth Badinter

Answer 5

“motherhood can feel like prison”

Question 6

Verhays

Answer 6

“reason is always culturally influenced”

Question 7

Aquinas

Answer 7

extra part of self giving is what it means to be female

“mothers, who are those who love the most, seek to love more than to be loved”

Question 8

C.S Lewis

Answer 8

“agape is the adorable image of the divine”