An essay entitled "God our Mother" without a single mention of Julian of Norwich? M. Night Shyamalan himself has never written such an unexpected twist.
Hey! This is great! I think you understand what Bulgakov’s driving at really well — and putting him in dialogue with Kabbalah is important, for sure. Solovyov, for example, wrote extensively on Judaism, and definitely studies Kabbalistic and Gnostic texts before his own revelation.
If I can critique lightly: I think that you proved that there exists elements of a divine feminine within Judaism and Christianity — but you didn’t quite prove that these elements have been in any sense normative (or quite shown why they should be). I would love a genealogy of Jewish and Christians readings of Sophia, and a discussion of how these traditions are more than just bizarre Gnostic outliers that you are pushing for political reasons.
I know of course space is an issue here. But I think your wider claim might be met with a bit of skepticism by church theologians if you leave those elements out. 🙂
my good man, spare me the light critique! (have at it) your criticism is exactly what my lovely wife said — “ ok nice paper but nobody is going to agree except those who already agree .. “
it’s been the best part of my undergrad to start attempting a synthesis between my studies (academic), personal, and experiential-ecclesial .
do you have any robustly theological feminist recommendations in judaism or christianity ? wondering if there are serious attempts at sophianic attempts at this kind of thing
An essay entitled "God our Mother" without a single mention of Julian of Norwich? M. Night Shyamalan himself has never written such an unexpected twist.
Interestingly enough, this is the language of the Syriac tradition, as well. Pseudo-Macarius (4th c.) is a great example.
Hey! This is great! I think you understand what Bulgakov’s driving at really well — and putting him in dialogue with Kabbalah is important, for sure. Solovyov, for example, wrote extensively on Judaism, and definitely studies Kabbalistic and Gnostic texts before his own revelation.
If I can critique lightly: I think that you proved that there exists elements of a divine feminine within Judaism and Christianity — but you didn’t quite prove that these elements have been in any sense normative (or quite shown why they should be). I would love a genealogy of Jewish and Christians readings of Sophia, and a discussion of how these traditions are more than just bizarre Gnostic outliers that you are pushing for political reasons.
I know of course space is an issue here. But I think your wider claim might be met with a bit of skepticism by church theologians if you leave those elements out. 🙂
my good man, spare me the light critique! (have at it) your criticism is exactly what my lovely wife said — “ ok nice paper but nobody is going to agree except those who already agree .. “
it’s been the best part of my undergrad to start attempting a synthesis between my studies (academic), personal, and experiential-ecclesial .
do you have any robustly theological feminist recommendations in judaism or christianity ? wondering if there are serious attempts at sophianic attempts at this kind of thing
Mmm that is most definitely outside of my area of expertise.