In our world today, we are taught many things that develop from the standpoint of religion. Elizabeth Johnson, a Roman Catholic feminist theologian wrote many well-known books that discuss an over view of topics that arise in theology and religion. Johnson wrote Quest for the Living God in 2007, she discusses in chapter 5; God Acting Womanish which goes into depth about female language in relation with God. Today, many people describe their faith and religion with certain language portraying the word of God and the specific gender identity that is made in relation. As people find out more information about the creator, we start to question certain behaviors and identities that had once told us.
With many people demanding for equality rights and with the women’s movement in 1960s-1970s led feminists to make assumption of what is God’s real identity? Who’s to say what God’s real identity is? With …show more content…
As Johnson would describe it, “Androcentrism, or male-centeredness, refers to ways of thinking that privilege men; it makes men’s way of being human normative for all human beings”, this became an issue in different countries due to the habitual rituals that were still being practiced (95). In other countries, women were still not allowed to be integrated in churches and religious structures. Instead, women of these countries didn’t push to be more perceived in the masculine dominated world (95). Many feminists wanted the roles of the church services to be able to include women and just not men. Feminist wanted to enhance the language and imagery of God. They wanted to be able to increase the roles that women were not entitled to such as careers, parenting and the biblical text along with many other roles. Many Christians were not willing to experience this practice and left the church because of the male-dominance being
With many people demanding for equality rights and with the women’s movement in 1960s-1970s led feminists to make assumption of what is God’s real identity? Who’s to say what God’s real identity is? With …show more content…
As Johnson would describe it, “Androcentrism, or male-centeredness, refers to ways of thinking that privilege men; it makes men’s way of being human normative for all human beings”, this became an issue in different countries due to the habitual rituals that were still being practiced (95). In other countries, women were still not allowed to be integrated in churches and religious structures. Instead, women of these countries didn’t push to be more perceived in the masculine dominated world (95). Many feminists wanted the roles of the church services to be able to include women and just not men. Feminist wanted to enhance the language and imagery of God. They wanted to be able to increase the roles that women were not entitled to such as careers, parenting and the biblical text along with many other roles. Many Christians were not willing to experience this practice and left the church because of the male-dominance being