This was originally posted March 11, 2019 Not too long ago I heard someone deride members of a seminar who were building labyrinths in the olive groves of Greece as “a bunch of tree-huggers.” I bristled! I probably first heard… Read More ›
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The Legacy of Carol P. Christ: GOD AND WOMAN AT YALE*
This was originally posted on June 25, 2012 As a graduate student, I was told in every way possible that I could not be a woman and a theologian. When I was studying for my Ph.D. at Yale in theology in the late… Read More ›
Tree-Hugging Is About Trees and So Much More Than Trees by Carol P. Christ
Not too long ago I heard someone deride members of a seminar who were building labyrinths in the olive groves of Greece as “a bunch of tree-huggers.” I bristled! I probably first heard of the Chipko tree-hugging movement which is… Read More ›
ETHICS OF INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND CARE SENSITIVE ETHICS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE GAY MARRIAGE DEBATE by Carol P. Christ
Is care the beginning of ethics? Has traditional western ethical thinking been wrong to insist that in order to reason ethically, we must divorce reason from emotion, passion, and feeling? In Ecofeminist Philosophy, Karen Warren criticizes traditional ethical thinking–advocating a… Read More ›
Reading Plato’s Allegory of the Cave as Matricide and Theacide by Carol P. Christ
When I read Plato’s allegory of the cave as an undergraduate, I was told it had something to do with the idea that the “form” of a table is more “real” than the table itself. I must confess that I… Read More ›
GOD AND WOMAN AT YALE* by Carol P. Christ
As a graduate student, I was told in every way possible that I could not be a woman and a theologian. When I was studying for my Ph.D. at Yale in theology in the late 1960s and early 1970s, my skirts were short… Read More ›
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