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Flashcards by Malachy Moran-Tun, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Malachy Moran-Tun
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| Question | Answer |
| Why might Male Language about God be Inaccurate? | > Bible originally in Greek and Hebrew, which don't consist of gender-neutral language (Hebrew has particularly strict forced grammatical gender) > "He" could have been a default / equivalent to gender-neutral terms > Many Bible passages portray God in feminine or gender-neutral terms |
| Passages that Portray God in Non-Male Terms | Isaiah 66:13 "As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you" Genesis 1:27 "...in the image of God, He created them; male and female He created them" Galations 3:28 "There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus" Matthew 23:37 "...how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings" Luke 15:8-9 "or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one... when she finds it, she calls her friends... and say "rejoice with me; I have found my lost coin" John 4:24 "God is spirit" |
| What Key Thinker and Documents had an Ecofeminist Approach to the Nature of God? | > Sallie McFague (1933 - 2019) > Models of God: Theology for an Ecological, Nuclear Age (focused on Feminist Theology) >The Body of God: An Ecological Theology (focused on Ecological Theology... obvs) |
| What does McFague say about Metaphoric Language and the Nature of God | > All language used to describe God is metaphorical, including masculine language found in scripture (e.g., father, king etc.) > Warns against overuse of metaphoric language - begins to lose meaning, effectively worshipping the idol of the metaphor > Develops 3 metaphors for God's relationship with the world: - Mother - agape love for creation (traditionally the Father) - Lover - healing: doctrine of salvation (traditionally the Son) - Friend - companionship / guide: doctrine of eschatology (traditionally the Holy Spirit) |
| What does McFague's Mother Analogy Represent? | > Stressed that God is beyond male and female > Recognised that proposing a more motherly role, to replace God the Father, would mean that God's identity would have to fit around a binary outside of God and God's images > Developed metaphors to aid in our understanding, but not to overuse > Traditional aspect of a mother used to portray God's association with creation (the beginning of life and its fulfilment) > Provides a more intimate relationship than can be explored with a distanced God - creation ex nihilo - and a definitively transcendent God - outside of space and time and therefore separate (intimacy links to panentheism) |
| What does McFague's Lover Analogy Represent? | > God's healing and saving nature, without the need of an objectively male idol > Corresponds with, but does not replace, the Son > Goes in tandem with Christ's crucifixion and resurrection - affirms that God saves, just like a lifelong partner would do the same |
| What does McFague's Friend Analogy Represent? | > Corresponds with the Holy Spirit > Acts as a source of wisdom or guidance in life, when necessary > Provides a more intimate relationship than "supernatural" spirit |
| How does McFague use God's Intimacy to Express Ecological Views? | > New metaphor for the purpose of "causing us to see differently" > Grounded in the belief of panentheism - God intersects every part of the Universe (or maybe is the Universe) > "We never meet God unembodied" (since God is creation / the Universe) > Causes us to take creation seriously, since it is God's self-expression > The Universe is God's body - salvation is about salvation of all earthly bodies, not just human ones: we "are all made of ashes of dead stars" > All of God's creation should be treated with respect > God is not distant or closely intimate in this metaphor, he is interweaved within our lives > Led to her understanding of sin being letting other parts of the created order flourish free of our control, a panentheist viewpoint |
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