The Women's Movement Challenges the Church

1974 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 298-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia Ramey Mollenkott
Keyword(s):  
Women's Movement ◽  
Image Of God ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Normal Degree ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
The Image Of God ◽  
The Church ◽  
Made In

Because woman has for centuries been “made over” by man in order to satisfy his own expectations, women in the 1970s are confronted with the task of finding out which of their attitudes are really their own and which are the products of socialization. Church women continue to be assaulted by “biblical” attacks on their dignity, making it all the harder for them to achieve the central goal of Women's Liberation: the assumption of adult responsibility and a normal degree of autonomy in one's own life. Now that women are trying to recover their own image—like men, made in the image of God—modern churches are challenged with the opportunity to atone for some of the injustices of the past by rooting out sexism within their own ranks and by opposing sexism in society as a whole.

scholarly journals ’n Kritiese evaluasie van die Godsbeeld van Sally McFague

1993 ◽  
Vol 49 (1/2) ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Steyn ◽  
J. H. Koekemoer
Keyword(s):  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Image Of God ◽  
Images Of God ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Image Of God ◽  
The Church

Sally McFague’s image of God: A critical evaluation In the past decade, many feminist publications on the image of God have seen the light of day. This article concentrates on the viewpoint of Sally McFague in addressing the problem of God-language. It attempts to poin t ou t the positive and negative aspects of McFague’s images of God-as-Mother, God-as-Lover and God-as-Friend. Finally, it aims to pinpoint the value of the feminist viewpoint for theological discussion in general and the proclamation of the church today in particular.

scholarly journals Back to the Basics: The Resurgence of Moral Formation in American Protestant Ethics

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-94
Author(s):  
Paul Martens
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Image Of God ◽  
Moral Formation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Image Of God ◽  
Made In

In the North American context, one trend in introductory Protestant Christian ethics texts is clear: the desire to draw the focus away from moral pronouncements about contemporary ‘issues’ in order to concentrate on what it means to be truly human, that is, to see the world as followers of Christ made in the image of God and to employ forms of moral reasoning appropriate to this vision. The article illuminates the particular emphases displayed in contemporary Protestant ethics texts published in the United States over the past decade as each contributes to this agenda of renewal. In conclusion, I argue that the trend toward eschewing ‘applied’ ends is laudable and yet ambiguous. I suggest this trend may also be tied to the relative gender and racial uniformity of the authors, because what is frequently absent in this collection are the social and political concerns commonly voiced by more marginalized voices.

scholarly journals 'Every generation has to make its own women's movement'

Soundings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (77) ◽  
pp. 37-54
Author(s):  
Sheila Rowbotham ◽  
Jo Littler
Keyword(s):  
Women's Movement ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Women's Liberation Movement ◽  
Historical Scholarship ◽  
Liberation Movement ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
Women’S Liberation Movement

In this interview Sheila Rowbotham talks to Jo Littler about her involvement in feminism and politics over several decades. This ranges across her role in the Women's Liberation Movement, left activism, historical scholarship, work with in the Greater London Council (GLC), involvement in the international homeworking movement and her secret life as a poet.

Made and Re-Made in the Image of God

1999 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 59-65
Author(s):  
Jean Mayland
Keyword(s):  
Image Of God ◽  
The Image Of God ◽  
Made In

scholarly journals The mercy of God as the foundation of charity of the Church

Diacovensia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 637-651
Author(s):  
Wiesław Przygoda
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Image Of God ◽  
Church Fathers ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Pope Benedict Xvi ◽  
Benedict Xvi ◽  
The Bible ◽  
1 John ◽  
The Image Of God ◽  
The Church

Charity diaconia of the Church is not an accidental involvement but belongs to its fundamental missions. This thesis can be supported in many ways. The author of this article finds the source of the obligation of Christians and the whole Church community to charity service in the nature of God. For Christians God is Love (1 John 4, 8.16). Even though some other names can be found, (Jahwe , Elohim, Adonai), his principal name that encapsulates all other ones is Love. Simultaneously, God which is Love showed his merciful nature (misericordiae vultus) in the course of salvation. He did it in a historical, visible and optimal way through his Son, Jesus Christ through the embodied God’s Son, Jesus Christ, who loved the mankind so much that he sacrificed his life for us, being tortured and killed at the cross. This selfless love laid the foundations for the Church, which, in essence, is a community of loving human and God’s beings. Those who do not love, even though they joined the Church through baptism, technically speaking, do not belong to the Church since love is a real not a formal sign of belonging to Christ’s disciples (cf. John 13, 35). Therefore, charitable activity is a significant dimension of the Church’s mission as it is through charity that the Church shows the merciful nature of its Saviour. A question that needs to be addressed may be expressed as follows: in what way the image of God, who is love, implies an involvement in charity of an individual and the Church? An answer may be found in the Bible, writings of the Church Fathers of and the documents of Magisterium Ecclesiae and especially the teachings of Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis.

> ... zum Leben ermutigen<

2001 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-120
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Thönissen
Keyword(s):  
Theological Anthropology ◽  
Social Ethics ◽  
Image Of God ◽  
Language Form ◽  
The Past ◽  
Joint Declaration ◽  
Biblical Perspective ◽  
The Image Of God ◽  
Cover Up ◽  
Biblical Teaching

AbstractDuring the past years the project of ecumenical social ethics was initiated without the burden of dogmatic questions. Jointpositions in questionsrelevant to society could be formulated without a prior consensus in fundamental controversial theological issues. Consequently the question arises whether the wished and aspired joint proclamation of social ethics of the churches really rests on a consensus in fundamental issues of the Christian faith or whether public pressure and the changed normative situation cover up differences which could prove themselves to be exclusive. There are agreements in three areas: in the understanding ofthe Gospel as foundational, in the biblical teaching ofman being created in the image of God as a fundamental article of theological anthropology and in a joint proclamation of the churches as an ecumenical task. Returning to a biblical perspective a consensus in the ethical demands of the Gospel andin the universal claim of biblical ethics can be established which does not exclude but rather include the differences between the traditional denaminational positions. This consensus can be called a »differentiated consensus« similar to the case of the »Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification«. Thus ecumenical social ethics has been relieved from the pressure of having to fully agree in language, form and contents in all conceivable questions.

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