Sandra Marie Schneiders Quotes

• No matter how entrenched in the imagination of the average Christian the image of a male God might be, theological tradition has never assigned sex to God.

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• the gender of God, God's presumed masculinity, has functioned as the ultimate religious legitimization of the unjust social structures which victimize women.

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  God   Religious   Having Fun  

  Sandra Marie Schneiders (1986). “Women and the Word: The Gender of God in the New Testament and the Spirituality of Women”, p.5, Paulist Press

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• metaphors for God drawn from human experience can easily be literalized. While we are immediately aware that the personal God is not really a rock or a mother eagle, it is easy enough to imagine that God is really a king or a father.

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  God   Mother   Kings  

  Sandra Marie Schneiders (1986). “Women and the Word: The Gender of God in the New Testament and the Spirituality of Women”, p.27, Paulist Press

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• Feminism is not a patch; it is a whole new pattern which can only be realized by weaving a new garment, seamless from top to bottom and multicolored from the beginning.

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  Feminism   Patterns   Weaving  

  Sandra Marie Schneiders (2004). “Beyond Patching: Faith and Feminism in the Catholic Church”, p.4, Paulist Press

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