Criticisms of Daly and Ruether
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- Criticisms of Daly and Ruether
- Criticism of Daly
- Simon Chan
- Argues that seeing God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit is a symbol for the unity of God in three persons and not meant to be an emphasis on maleness
- Argues that Daly glosses over the important symbolism of the idea of God the Father as the creator of all, dwelling only on the negative aspects but not recognising the richness that the concept of Father God offers
- Chan also points out parts of the Bible where God, even though depicted as male, exhibits female qualities such as compassion which are not stereotypically male
- Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
- A feminist theologian, argues that Daly’s understanding of the Bible is too narrow and fails to recognise biblical passages that directly challenge patriarchy
- Simon Chan
- Criticisms of Ruether
- Some critics of Ruether claim she goes too far in trying to reform Christianity to suit a feminist agenda, and others claim that she does not go far enough
- Chan
- Argues that Ruether is wrong to try to rewrite Christianity to give more prominence to women because beliefs in doctrines such a God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit are central to Christian tradition. He thinks it would be wrong to try and downplay the masculinity of Christian liturgy
- Points out that many religions have had goddesses as well as Gods, celebrating the feminine in deities as well as the masculine, but the societies holding these beliefs have nevertheless been patriachal societies. He argues therefore changing ideas of God to feminine as well as masculine would make no difference
- Daphne Hampson
- Modern post-Christian theologian- argues that Christianity and feminism are essentially incompatible.Christianity is too tightly interwoven with patriarchy to be reinterpreted with feminist agenda. She thinks that trying to carry out a radical feminist transformation of Chr
- Criticism of Daly
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