I have been asked why I put so much time and thought into my critique of WomanChrist. As one friend put it, at least the…
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I emphatically do not understand this. How can a woman on the one hand lyrically proclaim not just the equality, but the apparent spiritual supremacy…
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Perhaps most dramatically for me: why does Weber wish to stay with a Church which effectively defiles her sacred nature, when she is so clearly…
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Unfortunately, I ultimately found the four archetypes offered by Weber to be somewhat limiting, in that they all seemed to define a woman in terms…
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I found myself wondering, in fact, just how much abuse women were supposed to put up with. When was the pain supposed to stop? When…
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Myths and victims Mythically speaking, this revelation holds true as well, at least in the stories I know of. The entire saga of the Old…
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Myths and archetypes Weber clearly understands the power and beauty of myth and dream, which is a subject I too very much appreciate pondering: “The…
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I am still cautiously exploring esotericism, so I also loved her comment about science being what we can know about the Mystery, but that “Mystery…
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I recently finished reading Womanchrist: A New Vision of Feminist Spirituality, a book which has left me quite perplexed. The author, Christin Lore Weber, is…
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The speaker noted that of the 33 revolutions since (and including) the American Revolution, only six of them were led by Freemasons, which would seem…
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