Gender and Theology

• "feminism represents a revolution. It is not in essence a demand that women should be allowed to join the male world on equal terms. It is a different view of the world. This must be of fundamental importance for theology. As women come to their own theology will take a different shape" - Daphne hampson
• "an unholy Trinity of rape, genocide and war" - Mary Daly
• "whenever man has thought it necessary to create a memory of himself his effort has been attended with torture, blood, sacrifice" - Nietzsche
• "If God is male then male is God." - Mary Daly
• "now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man but save for yourself every girl who was never slept with a man" - the bible
• "Christ is the symbolic legitimization of the rape of all women and all matter" - Mary Daly
• "the underlying culture of rape, genocide and war is impregnated within Christianity itself and these elements are so fundamental to Christianity that leaving this culture means leaving Society" - Mary Daly
• "to be female is to be deviant by definition in the prevailing culture. To be female and defiant is to be intolerably deviant... This is equivalent to assuming the role of which and mad woman" - Mary Daly
• "women should keep silent in the churches for they are not permitted to speak but should be in submission as the law also says"
• "I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man she must be quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not the one who was deceived, it was the woman... But women will be saved through childbearing"
• "Wives submit to your own husbands as you do to the lord for the husband of the head of the wife as Christ as the head of the church"
• "I saw women that were repressed. When they're in classes with young men, they shut up all the time. Their laughed at if they have unusual ideas. They have to be sexy; then, they can't really think" - Mary Daly
• "the Messiah can only be imagined as a male" - Reuther
• "by becoming a servant of God one is freed from bondage of all human Masters" - Reuther
• "[Daly is closed] mistakenly narrow" - Elizabeth Schüssler Fiorenza