- Title
- Patriarchal theism
- Creator
- Laura, Ronald; Chalender, Robert
- Relation
- The Biennial Conference in Philosophy, Religion and Culture. God, Freedom and Nature: Proceedings of the biennial conference in philosophy, religion and culture, 2012 (Strathfield, N.S.W. 5-7 October, 2012) p. 175-183
- Relation
- http://www.cis.catholic.edu.au/news-a-events/biennial-conference
- Publisher
- Body and Soul Dynamics
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2012
- Description
- The Judeo-Christian attitude towards women and nature is not presented unequivocally within the context of Biblical literature. There are many reasons for this: some are exegetical, some are theological and socio-cultural, while others are epistemological. Whatever reasons might seem to explain the diversity of disposition to be found on this subject, our purpose in this paper is to show that the ongoing rape of nature and women in the western world can be explained partly as a consequence of the misuse, perhaps even the exploitation of this ambiguity. Lamentably, such institutionally sanctioned misinterpretations have led to a form of ‘gender elitism’ legitimized covertly by a discriminatory biblical presumption which we call ‘patriarchal theism.’ The use we make of this term is straightforward.
- Subject
- Judeo-Christian; women; nature; Biblical literature
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1059311
- Identifier
- uon:16569
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780646589183
- Language
- eng
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