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Friday, May 28, 2010

sexism, hostile to male religions and the trinity

I am reading Nel Nodding's book, "Women and Evil," the thesis of which is that philosophy about fundamental issues, such as sex, war, euthanasia, and abortion has been defined by males--and that it is time to introduce a woman's--feminine--perspective to these issues, philsophically. The problem is that her hostile to male-dominated religion along with her choice to limit herself to philosophy makes her miss the essence of what Christianity can add to the debate.
The doctrine of the Trinity suggests that our Ultimate reality is "relational," that is more feminine than masculine as a perspective. This doctrine speaks of the mystery, not as mystification--something she hates--but as explorable perspective. I find that exactly each point where she sees evil religion can find resolution if she looks past religion to what religion signifies.

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