Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation'Certainly one of the most promising theological statements of our time.' --The Christian Century 'Not for the timid, this brilliant book calls for nothing short of the overthrow of patriarchy itself.' --The Village Voice |
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... human na- ture , and for the human relationship to God reinforce sexual hierarchy . Tremendous damage is done , particularly in ethics , when ethicists con- struct one - dimensional arguments that fail to take women's experience into ...
... human na- ture , and for the human relationship to God reinforce sexual hierarchy . Tremendous damage is done , particularly in ethics , when ethicists con- struct one - dimensional arguments that fail to take women's experience into ...
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... to make the problem disappear by universalization . One frequently hears : " But isn't the real problem human liberation ? " The difficulty with this approach is that the words used may be " true , Problem , Purpose , and Method 5.
... to make the problem disappear by universalization . One frequently hears : " But isn't the real problem human liberation ? " The difficulty with this approach is that the words used may be " true , Problem , Purpose , and Method 5.
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... human consciousness and its externalizations , that is , to generate human becoming . If one must use traditional labels , my work can at least as accurately be called philosophy . Paul Tillich described himself as working " on the ...
... human consciousness and its externalizations , that is , to generate human becoming . If one must use traditional labels , my work can at least as accurately be called philosophy . Paul Tillich described himself as working " on the ...
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... humanity , with little energy left for constructing their own interpretation of the universe . Therefore , the ... human potential , female and male . What is required of women at this point in history is a firm and deep refusal to ...
... humanity , with little energy left for constructing their own interpretation of the universe . Therefore , the ... human potential , female and male . What is required of women at this point in history is a firm and deep refusal to ...
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... humanity is attributed only to males , and in view of the significant fact that " man " also means male , the term does ... human species , but to point to the necessity of the death of this false word , its elimination from our language ...
... humanity is attributed only to males , and in view of the significant fact that " man " also means male , the term does ... human species , but to point to the necessity of the death of this false word , its elimination from our language ...
Contents
After the Death of God the Father | 13 |
Exorcising Evil from Eve The Fall into Freedom | 44 |
Beyond Christolatry A World Without Models | 69 |
Transvaluation of Values The End of Phallic Morality | 98 |
The Bonds of Freedom Sisterhood as Antichurch | 132 |
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Page 1 - When you are criticising the philosophy of an epoch, do not chiefly direct your attention to those intellectual positions which its exponents feel it necessary explicitly to defend. There will be some fundamental assumptions which adherents of all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so obvious that people do not know what they are assuming because no other way of putting things has ever occurred to them.
Page vii - What the hammer? what the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp? When the stars threw down their spears, And water'd heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee? *> Tyger! tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye, Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
Page 6 - For my purpose is to show that the women's revolution, insofar as it is true to its own essential dynamics, is an ontological, spiritual revolution, pointing beyond the idolatries of sexist society and sparking creative action in and toward transcendence.