Sentences with phrase «feminine images of god»

So my call for guys to write blog posts that honor women and celebrate the feminine images of God in Scripture has been absolutely overwhelming.

I suggest that it's actually a time to re-imagine feminine images of God.

Write a blog post that highlights the feminine images of God found in Scripture or that celebrates the importance of women in the Church.

Not exact matches

For example, when Pope Benedict XVI was head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, he penned the recent On the Collaboration of Men and Women, concluding that feminine values are «above all human values: the human condition of man and woman created in the image of God is one and indivisible.

By contrast, the perfection of the androgynous God of process thought consists in an ideal balance of these contrasting traits, not in the total exclusion of the traits this culture traditionally views as feminine, thus luring both human males and females to strive to create themselves in the divine image.

Recognizing that their critique has rendered images of God no longer absolute, feminists have discovered that the religious power structure is reluctant to admit that patriarchal symbols for God are culturally influenced (as if God really were male) or contingent (as if use of a feminine symbol to point to a nonrepresentable God is more inadequate or idolatrous than use of a male symbol) To read Mary Daly or Naomi Goldenberg, to consider Rosemary Ruether's demasculinizing of the Gospel stories or to ponder the renewed attention to «goddess» theology and the development of a lesbian theology is to see the basic language of theological discourse upset and transformed.

Despite the presence of some feminine images of deity in the Bible, there is no question but that God is view overwhelmingly in masculine terms.