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What is apocrypha?
Part of the bible that Protestant Christianity rejected which included ‘Wisdom’ literature which exalts the feminine
What is eschatology for feminists?
The judgement of the patriachy and the formation of a new society
What is montanism?
Movement in the 2nd century where women prophesised and claimed direct visions of God
Scholars sounding Heremaneutics of suspicion
1) Paul Ricouer
2) Elizabeth Florenza
What did Paul Ricouer say?
Asked up to adopt a heremaneutics of suspicion when reading tests like the bible- be sus of motives, values of the culture of those who wrote it
What did Elizabeth Florenza say?
Theology is a product of each writers experience which is determined by their historical and social context (Stoning of adulterers in Leviticus)
Criticisms of Ruether?
Daphne Hampson
1) historical roots of Christianity are sexist
2) incarnation doctrine is sexist
3) symbolic world is sexist
Criticisms of Daly?
1) Andrew Lourde- Daly refuses to acknowledge oppression of women of colour
2) no analysis of wealth, class, race as instruments of oppression
3) over emphasises the patriachy (witch hunt and James i)
4) patriachy does not explain many men campaigning for womens rights including Jesus- overthrew aspects of anti-women purity code of Leviticus
What did Mary believe women were presented as?
Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene- the fallen woman
What does Mary call of women?
‘To see and be’ and represent the greatest challenge to world religions
What does Mary believe is the ultimate ‘sin’?
The patriachal religion and women being complicit in the role of the submissive other (Links to Aquinas’ assumption of women as defective men)
What did Mary say was the prevailing religion and with what essential message?
The patriachy with the message of necrophilia (love of death e.g. the worship of the crucifixion)
What does Mary say about the patriachal father?
It legitmises males superiority complex, ‘as God is male the male became God’
Mary’s opinion on Jesus?
It is idolotary to suggest a limited man represented an eternal God. He was a scapegoat of the sins of Eve. Christ has projections of victim-hood and necrophilia
Quote from Mary about religion
‘Male religion entombs women to sepulchers of silence.’
What did Mary say women need to escape?
The false paradise of patriachal enslavement and renounce sexuality to live ‘beyond, beneath and all around’
What did Mary suggest by the Cosmic Covenant?
renounced old order of meaningless desires, violence and war
What Ruether say of Jesus’ gender?
Jesus’ gender is irrelevant as maleness as no theological significance. Messiah is an iconoclastic prophet in the tradition of Isaiah
What did Ruether want from the Church?
Them to repent and cast of patriachy. Rediscover Jesus in embracing a new relation to earth. (Daly)
What needed to be discovered for Ruether?
Prophetic principle which emphasised justice and liberation. Isaiah 60- radical vision of world order
Name of female prophets that Ruether embraced?
Priscilla, Maximilla in Montanism
What did ruether say of God’s gender?
Genderless, to turn him into a man is idolatry to serve men’s interests
What should be rejected in the Church?
Clericalism (only men priests) as it is a product of the patriachy
What did Ruether believe was the cause of St Paul’s 2 letters to the Corinthians?
There were early Church women leaders but the rise in female prophetess caused it. 1 Cor ‘I do not allow women to have authority in the Church’
What does the patriachy encourage for Ruether?
A hierachy with the idea of transcendence. ruether emphasised God’s immanence. (God as being within all things)
Who did Ruether see God as?
‘wisdom’ from the Book of Wisdom. Apart of the aprocypha. Greek word for logos a feminine word.
