Daly's criticism of Christian theologians

• what did Daly say of Tertullian

  saw women as 'the devil gateway' and responsible for the fall. The reason God needed to send Jesus to die to save everyone
• what did Daly say of Augustine

  saw women as begotten males
• what did Daly say of Martin Luther King

  saw Adam as lord of all but Eve spoiled this
• how did Daly criticise early Christian theologians?

  Daly criticised the idea that the role of Christian women is to be a mother and the argument that women cannot be ordained because Jesus was male. God the father is inadequate and maleness of God should be removed. God should be castrated. Women need to use new language as old language is androcentric
• how did Daly criticise modern theology?

  male superiority reinforces male superiority. She accused Bonhoeffer of insisting women should be subject to their husbands. She accused Barth of saying women is subordinate to man. Pope Pius XII- women's true liberation does not come from formalistic or materialistic equality with men, but in recognition of the vocation of a women to become a mother, specific to women
• how does Daly criticise Fletcher?

  Situation ethics is a man-made theory and part of patriarchy's dominating elite. Takes personalist, individualistic approach to ethics, denying communal dimension required for liberation of women. Entire system of ethics is a product of males- serves interest of sexist patriarchal society