tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7690830057835669205.post7579267358260689867..comments2023-10-21T07:55:34.085-04:00Comments on RevCyn: Thank You, Mary DalyCynthia L. Landrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02858232066200226342noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7690830057835669205.post-23778479528849732722010-04-16T15:52:13.859-04:002010-04-16T15:52:13.859-04:00one of her quotes:
"If life is to survive o...one of her quotes: <br /><br />"If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary process that will result in a drastic reduction of the population of males."<br /><br />tell you what, replace "males" with "jews". Lemme know how it sounds....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7690830057835669205.post-81063042611571285882010-01-05T15:13:18.937-05:002010-01-05T15:13:18.937-05:00Somewhere/when along the path of my theological ed...Somewhere/when along the path of my theological education, when I also took many feminist theology classes, and along the path of my personal theological journey, I took on the spelling of "God" as "Godde" instead... sort of something between God and Goddess. This spelling represents to me that we don't know what gender this Godde is, or if "it" has a gender at all, or maybe "it" has both genders.<br /><br />I see the Bible as man's interpretation of the meaning of life and life's experiences as well as the reporting of actual events. That interpretation, due to the culture of the time, was paternalistic, as was the beginning Christian (i.e., Catholic) church. This Bible is fallible and contradictory, as is Man. <br /><br />I, therefore, consider myself a feminist theologian, although not professionally, who believes that both the Bible and Christianity are patriarhcal, but that does not imply that Godde is patriarchal or that religion has to be, or that Christianity or other religions cannot be changed to non-patriarchal religions. So I guess I find, using your definitions that I am neither type 1 or type 2, but something of a mixture of some parts of each.<br /><br />I do love Mary Daly's description of the way women think and converse... "spinning conversation" is an apt description, as I think of the way women use conversation in a nurturing, growing sort of way, "matching experiences" to help each other make sense of life, and as opposed to the more argumentative, debate-style dialogue of most men.<br /><br />Women's theology has been likened to a patchwork quilt, another feminine, crafting term. The conversation helps us put that quilt together, figuratively as well as literally.Carolinenoreply@blogger.com