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Divine Presence. Despite such apologies and defenses, at least a few feminist theologians argue that Judaeo-Christian theology is still far too dominated by male concepts. Boston College's Mary Daly, a Roman Catholic laywoman, says a woman's revolution within the church is needed to overturn the patriarchal, male idea of leadership, which she describes as hyper-rational and aggressive. With it would go the masculine habit of constructing boundaries between "self" and "other." Gone, too, would be a God who keeps mankind in "infantile subjection." The new God would "encourage self-actualization and social commitment." Daly...
There are also holdouts. The U.S. Episcopal Church, following a worldwide Anglican move, admits women deacons (83 so far out of a total of 379) but does not yet permit ordination of women priests. Some Anglicans fear that ordaining women might upset ecumenical talks with Roman Catholics, but the Roman Catholic hierarchy is under pressure too. There is active discussion of women deacons for Roman Catholicism, and many Catholic thinkers today see no serious theological objection to women priests-though they will be a long time coming. The rigidly male-dominated Eastern Orthodox churches will doubtless be among the last...
...legal precedents for discrimination against women date back to the beginnings of Western law itself.* In the classic era of Athens, women fitted approximately the same category as slaves. Early Roman law candidly referred to the "perpetual tutelage of women" and considered them to be under the manus (hand) of their fathers or husbands-one basis for the custom of bestowing the "hand" of a daughter in marriage. Though later Roman law began to extend a few rights to women, the coming of the Dark Ages took them back to the status of chattels. Passing through canon law into English...
...that the opposition is giving up. A Roman Catholic law professor at Fordham University, Robert Byrn, a bachelor, had himself declared the legal guardian of all unborn fetuses whose mothers were awaiting abortions in municipal hospitals in New York. He sought to halt abortions only in public hospitals. Byrn won in the first court round, but abortions continued while the state appealed the decision. The professor then lost before the appeals court...
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