Gender and Theology

Content

• The reinterpretation of God by feminist theologians, including:

  • the teaching of Rosemary Radford Ruether and Mary Daly on gender and its implications for the Christian idea of God

Key Knowledge

• Ruether’s discussion of the maleness of Christ and its implications for salvation including:

  • Jesus’ challenge to the male warriormessiah expectation

  • God as the female wisdom principle

  • Jesus as the incarnation of wisdom

• Daly’s claim that ‘if God is male then the male is God’ and its implications for Christianity, including:

  • Christianity’s ‘Unholy Trinity’ of rape, genocide and war

  • spirituality experienced through nature