Gender And Theology Part 2 Flashcards
Who is Mary daly
Originally a Roman Catholic but as a radical feminist believed we needed to abandon Christianity to achieve post- Christian spirituality
What did daly believe about women and nature
- daly believed women had developed a spiritual relationship with nature but patriarchal culture destroyed this relationship using god as justification
What is dalys famous quote
“If god is male then male is god”
What did Daly believe was necessary for Christianity
-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
What did nietschze and Daly believ was necessary for h7mans to achieve this new era of human consciousness
- complete death of god and Christianity
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
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
What is the second nietschze idea Daly uses in her work
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
What is the third idea Daly uses in her work
- 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
What is the be-ing
The spiritual process of living which replaces the idea of an objective god
- also the spiritual process of discovering the richensss of nature
