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Review Summary: Beyond? |
Date: 2008-07-03 |
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Details: This book, along with many of the attempts to disuade seekers from using traditional language when referring to God, is very useful if you want to understand what Daly's view of religion is but not so useful if you want to read an accurate book on the subject which isn't so slanted. A great place to start would be any of these books:
God or Goddess?: Feminist Theology : What Is It? Where Does It Lead?
Speaking the Christian God: The Holy Trinity and the Challenge of Feminism is probably one of the best books on the subject.
For a true historical look at the place of women in the clergy of the Christian tradition, Hauke's Women in the Priesthood: A Systematic Analysis in the Light of the Order of Creation and Redemption is exhaustive.
Not to be too timid here, I would recommend Ungodly Rage: The Hidden Face of Catholic Feminism"
Lastly, This Is My Name Forever: The Trinity & Gender Language for God is also very useful and balanced.
Whatever you think on the subject, it is worth reading and praying and speaking out for what you beleive. Keep at it.
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Review Summary: excellent |
Date: 2006-07-21 |
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Details: Mary Daly makes no apologies. Instead of employing 'mental contortionism' in an effort to interpret blatantly sexist texts in an equitable manner, Daly bravely tosses them aside and forges a new theological understanding. This is one of the best indictments of traditional Catholic beleif that I have ever read, from the scathing rebutals of the pauline texts to the rejection of the idea of any messiah cum human. The tone is forceful witty and incredible clever, and definitely keeps you reading. The urge to move beyond outdated ideas is one of the corner-stones of progress and thus I salute Mary Daly for her much needed work in religious philosophy. |
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Review Summary: Mary Daly has contributed little to humanity or women |
Date: 2005-03-18 |
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Details: For decades feminist authors such as Miss Daly have used their dubious credentials in academia to promulgate the fantasy of a golden age before the onset of "patriarchy," It's the same 60s nonsense clothed in a new phraseology and when we strip away the fancy prose we're left with the following executive summary: Women once ruled the earth with flowy robes and Gaia conjuring magic wands, and all the world worshipped the Goddess. Any woman who has the courage to study the historical, archeological and paleological evidence by academics with ACTUAL ACCREDITED Ph.D.s will soon understand that this gynocentric vision is a myth which harms and enslaves women. Why? The effect of this genre of novel is not to increase grace, love and mercy, but to further splinter humanity into yet more little tribes, all petulantly vying for victim-status and privilege. When we sublimate and externalize our spiritual pain and longing for transcendence to a hatred of other groups (in this case, men) how can we find happiness in our journey through life?
The best antidote to Miss Daly's agenda-of-rage is Cynthia Eller's "The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory : Why An Invented Past Will Not Give Women a Future." Cynthia Eller easily exposes the Gaia/Sophia/Lilith scam. Reading this can help the reader differentiate between the two major taxonomies of Truth: the external, objective and verifiable reality which increases our understanding of the world, vs. collecting subjective emotional concepts to serve as a "stabilizing glue" for one's fragmented consciousness.
Another valuable read is "Interior Castle" or "The Way of Perfection" by St. Teresa of Avila. I challenge any woman to read those 2 books and conclude that this woman was "marginalized" and repressed by the "patriarchy." More likely, they would understand that a loving apprehension of woman's beauty, power and regnancy existed centuries before the word "feminism" was ever breathed on a western campus. The great irony is that this vision of women, infinitely larger, more beautiful and complex than anything modern feminism has ever proposed, is the very reality which Miss Daly desperately wishes to extinguish in her disciples.
In 50 years, the present farrago of theoreticians- Andrea Dworkin, Germaine Greer, Naomi Wolf, Susan Faludi ad infinitum will all be dead and forgotten, their books mouldering in bargain bins and used book stores. Each began with a half-truth: yes, our modern secular society is indeed repressive to women, but each fell into error by conjecturing that secular humanism was the implacable norm in society and represents God's plan for humanity. It is not. Feminist authors are themselves caught in the engrenage of materialism which afflicts our society, and thus, their solutions to free women can't work. In the guise of freedom, they end by merely exalting themselves and leading women further away from the truth. Don't follow their fate, sisters... only love is stronger than death, prejudice and violence. Open your heart and you will receive the graces to understand that there is but one division in life, that between creature and creator. When that day comes, you'll be forever immune to the hate of Miss Daly and her friends. God was beside you all along, a thousand times more ready to give than you were to ask. |
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Review Summary: Mary Daly is Out of This World! |
Date: 2001-08-22 |
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Details: It's amazing to me just how many readers don't get Mary Daly! That someone compared her to Hustler Magazine is too funny! Oh, I bet Professor Daly would love that! For those of you who didn't know, Daly has several doctorates (in philosophy and theology) from Fribourg University in Switzerland; she has published many phenomenal, intellectually stimulating, truly groundbreaking books; she's an amazing linguist with a dictionary of terms all her own; and she was a tenured professor at Boston College for many years. That the average reader from Philly hasn't a clue what she's saying is hardly surprising. Daly is a philosopher, a theologian, a scholar, writing for an intellectual feminist audience. Her ideas are not more of the usual male-defined babble, (which is why some readers may get "kicked out of school" for citing her as a reference) but rather radical, eye-opening, amazing challenges to the status quo. Of course, she's not for everyone (truly their loss). However, I've found her philosophy and her books to be quite enlightening, and I am most grateful for and encouraged by all that I have learned from her. Yes, Mary Daly is out of this world! (And with the Bush Administration at the helm, that's probably about the best place to be!) |
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Review Summary: Pitiful |
Date: 2000-10-26 |
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Details: Mary Daly is published for exactly the same reason that Hustler is published - there is a sizeable market of stupids who simply like reading trash. |
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