At 11:38 01.12.98 -0500, Bryan Hyden wrote:
>>now THAT'S preposterous!
>
>not a very nice way to start a rebuttal christina... could you please tell
>WHY it is preposterous?
I apologize, I certainly didn't mean to step in with clogs ... just wanted
to take up your saying "Now, to say that we are God, or for me to say that
I am God not only sounds blasphemous, but a little preposterous as well.
So I won't."
And I was referring to your interpretation of the creation story as
pantheistic, that's what it's coming down to, isn't it? If there is
something, theologians *do* agree on, then it is the idea of the Old
Testament of God being the Great and not fully comprehensible Other.
And this is what separates our understanding of "relational", too, I think.
This concept of otherness, which makes our body not really a good example.
I'd rather say: we integrate our perception of the universe into our
nature, but there still is an *Other*, which goes beyond my perception.
>please tell me in what way this is male, dominating, and imperialistic...
>i did use the double gender when referring to God....
Although I was happy to see that in the English language, using the double
gender is much easier and much more common than in German, I don't think
that this already guarantees that one is not "male, dominating, and
imperialistic"
;-) I'm not saying, you are, of course.
I just remembered having read Jim Cheney:
"Again, we see a false dichotomy at work: either we "respond to nature as a
part of ourselves" or we treat it as a stranger or alien avaliable for
exploitation" (...) There is a masculine soul in all this, a masculine soul
hoping to overcome alienation but withou the radical, and feminist,
transformation in self-concept that wourld make this possible."
(Ecofeminism and Deep Ecology, Environmental Ethics 9/1987)
or Ariel Kay Salleh:
"The deep ecology movement is very much a spiritual search for people in a
barren secular age; but how much of this quest for self-realization is
driven by ego and will? (...) Men's ungrounded restless search for the
alienated Other part of themselves has led to a society where not life
itself, but "change", bigger and better, whiter than white, has become the
consumptive end."
(Deeper than Deep Ecology, Env. Eth. 6/1984)
I'd really like to hear your thoughts on that, since I'm not yet quite sure
what to make of it.
Christina
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