The Progressive Christian Center of the South

Isn’t it curious that the patriarchal church refers to themselves as “Mother Church.”

Posted on Sep 30, 2009 - 10:15 PM

For many women today, the old patriarchal models of religion are no longer relevant, forming a need to look beyond the male-oriented past to a wider, more fulfilling and gender inclusive spiritual path. Through this search, women must also criticize humanocentrism, that is, making humans the norm and crown of creation in a way that diminishes the other beings in the community of creation. This is not a question of sameness but a recognition of value, which at the same time affirms genine variety and particularity. It reaches for a new mode of relationship, neither a hierarchical model that diminishes the potential fo the “other” nor an “equality” defined by a ruling norm drawn from the dominant group; rather a mutuality that allows us to affirm ways of being.

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Dr. Joerg Rieger is the Wendland-Cook Endowed Professor of Constructive Theology at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX. His website is devoted to theological projects that take seriously the radical and hopeful alternatives that emerge in conjunction with the underside of history.

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