tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19505042.post5312220254224582019..comments2024-01-29T06:02:39.583-08:00Comments on Suzanne's Bookshelf: Judith PlaskowSuzanne McCarthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07033350578895908993noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19505042.post-74516462881373030992008-04-17T23:09:00.000-07:002008-04-17T23:09:00.000-07:00I think you will enjoy her. I have read articles b...I think you will enjoy her. I have read articles by quite a few female theologians and her writing stands out to me.Suzanne McCarthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07033350578895908993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19505042.post-11643936188206861912008-04-17T11:34:00.000-07:002008-04-17T11:34:00.000-07:00Thanks very much for this post.Alot of German femi...Thanks very much for this post.<BR/>Alot of German feminist theologians have been trying to look at these issues for quite a while I think - though I am very behind with the scholarship these days. Leonore Siegele Wenschkewitz of fond memory but also Elisabeth Moltmann Wendel have done some work on these areas and it continually raises its head in my feminist theology group - though I notice how in circles outside germany it seems to take a long time to percolate.<BR/>Maybe it's also a case of every generation having to keep beating the drum.<BR/>Anyway thanks so much for writing about Plaskow I'm going to look her up and try to read some of her work.<BR/>JaneJanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04405344181636487394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19505042.post-14033209762615856472008-04-07T22:22:00.000-07:002008-04-07T22:22:00.000-07:00Thanks for sharing. These ideas have been on my mi...Thanks for sharing. These ideas have been on my mind for some time.Suzanne McCarthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07033350578895908993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19505042.post-10271387841011139062008-04-07T11:40:00.000-07:002008-04-07T11:40:00.000-07:00I really appreciate this post, although I am havin...I really appreciate this post, although I am having a hard time trying to articulate the specifics of how it affects my thinking. I did not want to wait to say thanks, though, until I could figure out the words to interact with it further.eclexiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14267603726576576420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19505042.post-48983790257165492452008-04-07T10:44:00.000-07:002008-04-07T10:44:00.000-07:00Thanks for sharing Judith Plaskow! I'm glad to se...Thanks for sharing Judith Plaskow! I'm glad to see that my university has several of her works in the library.<BR/><BR/>May I quote her from the volume you share? (and I'm peeking in via the wonderful amazon.com window):<BR/><BR/>"This sense of exclusion arises partly from the fact that everything in our written tradition comes from the hands of men...The Bible was written by men. The myths from which the Bible borrowed and which it used and transformed were written by men. The liturgy was written by men. Jewish philosophy is the work of men. Modern Jewish theology is the work of men. It was men who wrote even the special books for women, and it was men who designated women's three <I>mitzvot</I> (commandments) and wrote the blessings. // Now my point is not that therefore all these things are irrelevant to us. That is simply not true. The Bible is very much our Bible. There are male-written Jewish stories that we love. There are prayers that express our feelings as well as the feelings of the men who wrote them. // My point is rather that all these things have a <I>question mark</I> over them. As Mary Daly has said, women have had our power of <I>naming</I> stolen from us..." (page 35 "The Jewish Feminist")<BR/><BR/>"In a profoundly misogynistic culture that has ruthlessly exploited the natural environment--and that has linked women with the natural world on many levels of practice and discourse--feminist metaphors for God elucidate long-buried dimensions of divinity. These metaphors are not just political correctives to dominant modes of seeing and being; they arise from and refer to real discoveries of the sacred in places we had long stopped looking to find it." (page 134, "Facing the Ambiguity of God")J. K. Gaylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07600312868663460988noreply@blogger.com