Mary Daly Quotes on God
Mary Daly (1928–2010), the American Catholic-trained philosophical theologian whose Beyond God the Father (1973), Gyn/Ecology (1978), and Pure Lust (1984) gave second-wave feminist theology one of its most uncompromising voices, defended the case that the entire patriarchal apparatus of traditional Christian theology — the masculine God of the trinitarian formula, the cosmic kingship imagery, the institutional priesthood — must be displaced rather than reformed. The framework reframes God as a verb ("Be-ing") rather than a noun, treating the divine as the dynamic ground of women's emerging self-actualization rather than as the metaphysical guarantor of an inherited patriarchal order.
Quotes
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“If God is male, then the male is God.”
Beyond God the Father -
Attributed to Mary Daly:
“Patriarchy is itself the prevailing religion of the entire planet.”
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“The 'self-transcending immanence,' the sense of giving birth to ourselves, the sense of power of being within, which is being affirmed by many women, does not seem to be denoted, imaged adequately pointed to, or perhaps even associated with the term 'God'. p. 208”
The Qualitative Leap Beyond Patriarchal Religion." Quest 1 (Spr 1975) -
“The Qualitative Leap Beyond Patriarchal Religion." Quest 1 (Spr 1975)”
The 'self-transcending immanence,' the sense of giving birth to ourselves, the sense of power of being within, which is being affirmed by many women, does not seem to be denoted, imaged adequately pointed to, or perhaps even associated with the term 'God'. p. 208 -
“(Women's Liberation) ... is an ontological, spiritual revolution, pointing beyond the idolatries of sexist society and sparking creative action in and toward transcendence. The becoming of women implies universal human becoming. It has everything to do with the search for ultimate meaning and reality which some would call God. p. 6”
Wikiquote -
“The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities. (Stanton, quoted on p. 13)”
Wikiquote -
“Daly’s work exposed the foundational misogyny in religion which continues to flourish.”
About | Mary Daly dies: feminist theologian, professor, by Bryan Marquard, Boston Globe (10 January 2010) -
“She was a great trained philosopher , theologian and poet , and she used all of those tools to demolish patriarchy - or any idea that domination is natural - in its most defended place, which is religion .”
About | Gloria Steinem quoted in Mary Daly dies: feminist theologian, professor, by Bryan Marquard, Boston Globe (10 January 2010) -
“Mary Daly exposed the slimy underbelly of religion's treatment of women by Susan A. Ross, National Catholic Reporter' ' (5 December 2016)”
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