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From: rsp@PacBell.COM (Steve Price)
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Subject: Re: Feminism in the Craft
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Date: 15 Nov 89 17:24:54 GMT
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In article <61131@aerospace.AERO.ORG> jan@orc.olivetti.com writes:
>
>I personally found that just calling God "she" for 6 weeks (seriously,
>including picturing Her giving birth to the universe and spreading Her
>skirts over the Heavens) was a very scary and life-changing experience.
>
As a male Christian I find this whole topic of gender and the Deity 
fascinating.  I have been encouraged by friends who practice Wicca to
try imaging God as Female.  I have been trying to sneak up on that "scary"
experience by thinking about Mary, "The Mother of God" and "The Queen
of Heaven", in a more Catholic way -- I was raised VERY protestant.  
Kneeling before the Shrine of the Virgin in Grace Cathedral (Esicopal)
in San Francisco, I felt rather awkward, my whole background being
challenged.  But I think I need the challenge. So you see that this 
attempt to Feminize our concepts of The Divinity are "scary" for more
than one reason.

The current issue of the magazine TIKKUN has a great article on Jewish
Feminist attempts to propose Female images of God to balance the traditional
patriarchial language of Jewish (and therefore Christian and Islamic) theology.

If there is interest in this topic, I could post further details from and/or
about TIKKUN and this article.
-- 
Steve Price 		UNIX: pacbell!pbhyf!rsp		PHONE: (415)823-1951

...argument does not teach children or the immature. 
   Only time and experience does that.			Doris Lessing