- Title
- Set free by the word of God
- Creator
- Laura, Ronald; Buchanan, Rachel
- Relation
- 2008 Biennial Conference in Philosophy Religion and Culture. Proceedings of the 2008 Biennial Conference in Philosophy Religion and Culture (Strathfield, NSW 05-07 October, 2012) p. 165-170
- Publisher
- Body and Soul Dynamics
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2012
- Description
- Attempts to understand the philosophical presumptions which have motivated society's conceptualisation of women as a natural resource to be exploited as any other resource of nature, have led to a wide variety of sociological and philosophical explorations. Among such explorations, the Judeo-Christian tradition has been cited as a potentially rich source of socio-cultural prejudice against women. In what follows it will be argued that although it is to be admitted that there exists considerable exegetical ambiguity as to the Bible's view of women in the hierarchy of the created world, there is sufficient conceptual evidence to indicate that at least some interpretive devaluations of women do have a biblical basis. Women, it will be argued, are conceptualised as being resources, not unlike nature, created by God in order to be controlled and subdued by man. Firstly, we shall argue that a biblical pretext exists for conceiving of nature as being created under man’s dominion. Our second task will be to explore the extent to which certain biblical passages can be plausibly interpreted to show that women are similarly conceptualised.
- Subject
- hierarchy; women; Bible; domination
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1316973
- Identifier
- uon:23294
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780646589183
- Language
- eng
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