Women Religious Writers Today (Leaving Cert Religious Education): Flashcards

Examines how Christianity shaped by/for men, excluding & oppressing women

Controlled by male religious leaders who created texts, practices, teachings

Create gender-inclusive approach to Christianity

Patriarchal system flawed; women deserve equal rights; reform

God as loving/caring; highlights women in Bible; reinterpret

New ways of speaking about God; gender-inclusive expressions

Post-Christian; Christianity cannot be reformed, must abandon

Irredeemably sexist - fundamentally flawed, cannot be fixed

Dimension of reality all humanity shares, not external being

Liberation theologian working within Christianity

Proclaimer of liberation who challenged injustices & hierarchies

Embodying both traditionally male and female qualities

Jesus had both male (power/authority) & female (caring, healing, nurturing) traits

Women's biological nature/childbearing makes them closer to environmental issues

Hampson rejects Christianity; Ruether works within it to reform