Gender And Theology Part 2 Flashcards

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Who is Mary daly

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Originally a Roman Catholic but as a radical feminist believed we needed to abandon Christianity to achieve post- Christian spirituality

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What did daly believe about women and nature

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  • daly believed women had developed a spiritual relationship with nature but patriarchal culture destroyed this relationship using god as justification
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What is dalys famous quote

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“If god is male then male is god”

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What did Daly believe was necessary for Christianity

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-Daly shared the idea of trans valuation with nietschze
- believed there needs to be a complete trans valuation of Christianity
- trans valuation is a complete re evaluation of existing values

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What did nietschze and Daly believ was necessary for h7mans to achieve this new era of human consciousness

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  • complete death of god and Christianity
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Which of Nietzsche’s ideas are used by Daly in her work ‘Beyond God the Father’, which argues for a complete transvaluation of Christianity? (No 1

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There are two aspects of human nature - this is the idea that there are two conflicting sides of human nature , the Apollonian/ passive self and the Dionysian which is the energetic and creative self
- Daly believed women are dionysian

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What is the second nietschze idea Daly uses in her work

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The Apollonian veil - the Apollonian veil is when humans falsely create ideas which they believe are true which alienates themselves from their naturally creative and imaginative selves
- Daly believes that only women can eliminates these false ideas

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What is the third idea Daly uses in her work

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  • becoming and be-ing
  • being human is a creative ongoing process, there is no perfect end where one can say this is what it means to be human, this is because there is not an objective creator
  • only women understand the creative process of the be-ing
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What is the be-ing

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The spiritual process of living which replaces the idea of an objective god
- also the spiritual process of discovering the richensss of nature

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