Goddess as Nature: Towards a Philosophical ThealogyAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 01.01.2007 - 200 Seiten Goddess as Nature makes a significant contribution to elucidating the meaning of a female and feminist deity at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Bridging the gap between the emergent religious discourse of thealogy - discourse about the Goddess - and a range of analytical concerns in the philosophy of religion, the author argues that thealogy is not as incoherent as many of its critics claim. By developing a close reading of the reality-claims embedded within a range of thealogical texts, one can discern an ecological and pantheistic concept of deity and reality that is metaphysically novel and in need of constructive philosophical, thealogical and scholarly engagement. Philosophical thealogy is, in an age concerned with re-conceiving nature in terms of agency, chaos, complexity, ecological networks and organicism, both an active possibility and a remarkably valuable academic, feminist and religious endeavour. |
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Seite 137 - At this deeper level, all things are swirls of energy, vortexes of moving forces, currents in an everchanging sea. Underlying the appearance of separateness, of fixed objects within a linear stream of time, reality is a field of energies that congeal, temporarily, into forms. In time, all 'fixed' things dissolve, only to coalesce again into new forms, new vehicles.
Seite 166 - Serving the life force means working to preserve the diversity of natural life, to prevent the poisoning of the environment and the destruction of species. The world is the manifestation of the Goddess, but nothing in that concept need foster passivity. Many Eastern religions encourage quietism not because they believe the divine is truly immanent, but because they believe she/he is not.
Seite 42 - Seyla Benhabib, Situating the Self: Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics (New York: Routledge, 1992), 148-177, but I will cite the version in Women and Moral Theory.
Seite 33 - ... life. All were tentative and exploratory. The present volume goes beyond that earlier one in hewing to a specific proposal for understanding the meaning and significance of the symbol "God" today, and, accordingly, for understanding what theology is and how it is to be done. I have become persuaded that theology is (and always has been) essentially a constructive work of the human imagination, an expression of the imagination's activity helping to provide orientation for human life through developing...
Seite 17 - Gerda Lerner, The Creation of Patriarchy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986), p.
Seite 31 - Paul Feyerabend, Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge (London: New Left Books, 1975).
Seite 124 - As for time, female subjectivity would seem to provide a specific measure that essentially retains repetition and eternity from among the multiple modalities of time known through the history of civilizations. On the one hand, there are cycles, gestation, the eternal recurrence of a biological rhythm which conforms to that of nature and imposes a temporality whose stereotyping may shock, but whose regularity and unison with what is experienced as extrasubjective time, cosmic time, occasion...
Seite 101 - It is the idea that we can make no firm ontological divide in the field of existence: That there is no bifurcation in reality between the human and the non-human realms ... to the extent that we perceive boundaries, we fall short of deep ecological consciousness."3 From this most basic insight or characteristic of deep ecological consciousness, Arne Naess has developed two ultimate norms or intuitions which are themselves not derivable from other principles or intuitions.