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- Title
The Politics of God in the Christian Tradition.
- Authors
Ruether, Rosemary Radford
- Abstract
This article traces the development of the idea of God from the ancient Near East thought into Patristic Christianity with its fusion with Greek philosophy. The article details five patterns that shape the way in which God language in Christianity influences social and political systems: androcentrism or male domination over women; anthropocentrism or human domination over nature; ethnocentrism or the domination of a 'chosen' people over other people; militarism, and asceticism or the dualism and hierarchy of mind over body. It also suggests how these patterns of domination can be dismantled and more mutual relations between God, humans and nature developed.
- Subjects
GOD; CHRISTIANITY; ANDROCENTRISM; MALE domination (Social structure); ANTHROPOCENTRISM; ETHNOCENTRISM; MILITARISM; ASCETICISM
- Publication
Feminist Theology: The Journal of the Britain & Ireland School of Feminist Theology, 2009, Vol 17, Issue 3, p329
- ISSN
0966-7350
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0966735009102362