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[fierysword]

Resources on the Divine Feminine in Christianity

These resources provide biblical and historical evidence for the divine feminine in Christianity. I will update as I come across more.

Articles

Who is Sophia in the Bible?

The Feminine Imagery of God in the Hebrew Bible

Lady Wisdom - A Divine Feminine Entity

El Shaddai: The God With Breasts

El Shaddai and the Gender of God

Is God A Man?

Is God Both Male and Female?

Female Images of God

Lady Wisdom and the Gender Diverse Community of God

Gender Fluid Jesus is For Real

Jesus’s Vagina: A Medieval Meditation

The Enduring Symbolism of Doves

“Biblical Proofs” for the Feminine Face of God in Scripture

Masterpost: List of academic studies regarding the divine feminine in Christian texts and tradition

Blogs/Communities

Deidre Havrelock

Mother God Experiment

Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox

Sophiawakens

Sophia Inclusive Catholic Community

Ecosophian (Christopagan)

Books

Is It Okay to Call God “Mother”? Considering the Feminine Face of God by Paul R Smith

She who is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse by Elizabeth A. Johnson

Womanist Midrash by Wilda C. Gafney

Not Only a Father by Tim Bulkeley

In Memory of Her by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza

God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality by Phyllis Trible

The Divine Feminine by Virginia Ramey Mollenkott

Women and the Word by Sandra M. Schneiders

In Search of the Christ-Sophia: An Inclusive Christology for Liberating Christians by Jann Aldredge-Clanton

The Mother of the Lord by Margaret Barker

Our Mother – the Holy Spirit by Marianne Widmalm

Sophia-Maria: A Holistic Vision of Creation By Thomas Schipflinger

She Lives! Sophia Wisdom Works in the World by Jann Aldredge-Clanton

Sophia: Goddess of Wisdom by Caitlin Matthews (Christopagan)

The Woman’s Bible (feminist bible commentary)

Gender and the Nicene Creed by Elizabeth Geitz

God and the Goddesses by Barbara Newman

Wisdom’s Feast: Sophia in Study and Celebration by Susan Cole

Jesus as Mother by Caroline Bynum

Saints/Mystics

Julian of Norwich

Teresa of Avila

Jane Leave

Hildegard of Bingen

Thomas Merton

Jacob Boehme

Hadewijch

Authors

Elizabeth Johnson Jann Aldredge-Clanton Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza Matthew Fox Richard Rohr Joyce Rupp

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[fierysword]

You hyperfixate on Mary’s virginity because you think sex taints women.

I hyperfixate on Mary’s virginity as proving that women don’t need men to birth the divine into the world.

We are not the same.

[lovewanttimetopause]

[abstractiish]

church doodle: that’s it

[speakthewordonly]

Our soul is so specially loved of Him that is highest that it overpasseth the knowing of all creatures. That is to say, there is no creature that is made that may know how greatly, and how sweetly, and how tenderly our Maker loveth us.

Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love

[female-eren]

Leftists turn into the biggest pro-lifers if the fetus is disabled. They'd NEVERRR take on that child themselves of course, but they'll be DAMNED if they don't try to use guilt to force women into birthing disabled babies. It's crazy, they'll be like "abort that thang" about """abled""" fetuses but as soon as there's a Downs diagnosis or something then that fetus must be born. Like why. What changed

[catfinancier]

does anyone have that post about OSHA compliant sex work? something about a dude who shows up to a guy's house in full ppe to give him a dry handjob

[radfem-woman]

[auroranmaiden]

With Deanism gaining popularity on Tumblr there’s just a couple things I’d like to point out to avoid confusion. Deanism is not just a catch-all for all Goddess spirituality. On the contrary, the term exists to differentiate our beliefs from most Goddess worshippers today.

Deanism is in a nutshell the belief in Our Mother God not as a personification of the Earth, not as a ‘lunar deity’, not ‘the psychological goddess that lives inside every woman’, but as the supreme Creatrix of the Universe in Her own right. 

Deanists revere the Earth, who we see as our sister, but we don’t see the Earth as a goddess or worship it. Dea is a Heavenly Mother, not an Earth Mother.

Deanists see the God the Mother (Dea) as solar and lunar, but She is not by any means a personification of these two luminaries. Rather, She created them as reflections of Her power.

Many ‘goddess religions’ see the Goddess as being a psychological concept, a reflection of all women’s power. Deanists do not believe this. We believe every creature possesses a spark of Her infinite Spirit, as we all come from Her, but we also believe She is our Creator, who we should worship, not worship ourselves.

Some Deanists also believe in a Divine Masculine, or God the Father. That’s fine, but for one to be a Deanist they have to understand that these two traditions should be mixed carefully in order to avoid the Divine Masculine being seen as the more supreme Force, as is often the case in religions that believe in a Divine Masculine & Divine Feminine. Dea is not ‘the bride of God’, she is God in Her own right.

Deanism can be combined with other paths. One can be Deanic Jewish, a Deanic Christian, a Deanic Muslim, etc. This is a little trickier with polytheistic religions, but I’d say as long as you believe Dea/God the Mother created all of the other Gods and She has primacy over them, you’re still a Deanist if you identify that way.

Please note that this isn’t about bashing anyone else’s beliefs, it’s about protecting the definition of a religious umbrella that has certain principles. We are very different than a lot of Pagan faiths, and that’s okay. 

Blessings.

[rhosyn-o-magdalene]

Thought I’d resurrect this old post from @ihearhercalling . 💖

[askyea-poesy]

Make your own bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[weltenwellen]

On Seatbelts and Sunsets Hanif Abdurraqib

[enchantedbook]

'The Annunciation' by Takato Yamamoto

[theancientfootsteps-deactivated]

your email found me entering the wound in Christ's side to gaze upon His sacred heart pouring out endless love that was without beginning, and is, and shall be forever

[fear-not-beloved]

God has a face — meaning he is a “you” who can enter into a relationship — and who has not withdrawn into his heavenly dwelling place, looking down at humanity from on high. God is certainly above all things, but he addresses us, he listens to us, he sees us, he speaks to us, he makes a covenant, he is capable of love. The history of salvation is the history of God with humanity, it is the history of this relationship of God who gradually reveals himself to man, who makes himself, his face, known.

The search for God’s face was given an unimaginable turning-point, because this time this face could be seen: it is the face of Jesus. The desire to know God truly, that is, to see God’s face, is innate in every human being, even in atheists. And perhaps we unconsciously have this wish simply to see who he is, what he is, who he is for us. However this desire is fulfilled in following Christ, in this way we see his back and, in the end, we see God too as a friend, in Christ’s face we see his face. The important thing is that we not only follow Christ in our needy moments or when we find a slot in our daily occupations, but in our life as such. The whole of our life must be oriented to meeting Jesus Christ, to loving him; and, in our life we must allocate a central place to loving our neighbour, that love which, in the light of the Crucified One, enables us to recognize the face of Jesus in the poor, in the weak and in the suffering. This is only possible if the true face of Jesus has become familiar to us through listening to his word, in an inner conversation with him, in entering this word so that we truly meet him, and of course, in the Mystery of the Eucharist. The Eucharist is the great school in which we learn to see God’s face, we enter into a close relationship with him ||

Benedict xvi

[apenitentialprayer]

excerpts from his General Audience for January 16th, 2013

[fear-not-beloved]

“For those who feel their lives are a grave disappointment to God, it requires enormous trust and reckless, raging confidence to accept that the love of Jesus Christ knows no shadow of alteration or change. When Jesus said, “Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy burdened,” He assumed we would grow weary, discouraged, and disheartened along the way. These words are a touching testimony to the genuine humanness of Jesus. He had no romantic notion of the cost of discipleship. He knew that following Him was as unsentimental as duty, as demanding as love.”

— Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

[susietwobruise]

a beam of light in the monastery chapel

[thecatholicgirl]

Chinese Orthodox icon of the Annunciation

[allaboutmary]

圣母无染原罪

A Chines holy card of Mary as the Immaculate Conception.