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BLACK LIKE ME
Quotes, reflections and inspirations during the time of the world's racial uprising and unrest.
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Female Christ and the Shifting Zeitgeist
Photo by Raphael Lovaski on Unsplash Much work was completed in theological circles propelled by “third wave feminists” in the mid-late 1990’s around gender, women's roles, and dominant power structures at work in defining and limiting the aforementioned. Christian sects however have either been too slow to adopt the findings or have been altogether unaware of these findings and are therefore falling far behind the shifting zeitgeist . For Christians, the Bible is saturated with images of God as a male warrior fighting against the armies of evil both in the cosmos and on earth. One is hard-pressed to locate the divine in an ontologically feminine figure in Judeo-Christianity. The notions of divine identity within many branches of Protestantism is overwhelmingly static in its androcentricity. The customs, rituals and traditions passed on through the centuries have lauded and idealized the supreme being as wholly...
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