Quotes by Carol P. Christ - Page 1

At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.
Carol P. Christ / Teacher
Ancient
Firsts
Goddess
Images
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Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.
Carol P. Christ / Teacher
Nature
Affirming
Bird
Body
Earth
Meditation
Birds
Part
Connection
Daily
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Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.
Carol P. Christ / Teacher
Belief
Beliefs And Values
Years
Beliefs
Held
Questioned
Sway
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
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Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.
Carol P. Christ / Teacher
Body
Humanity
Reconciliation
Spirit
Arising
Spokesmen
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In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.
Carol P. Christ / Teacher
Death
Religion
Birth
Goddess
Paganism
Renewal
Understood
Feared
Followed
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Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.
Carol P. Christ / Teacher
Language
Powerful
Subversive
Constantly
Reinvented
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The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.
Carol P. Christ / Teacher
Point Of View
Revolutionary
Simple
Stories
Views
Act
Simple Act
View
Telling
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The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.
Carol P. Christ / Teacher
Attacking
Growing
Leaving
Movement
Patriarchal
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Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?
Carol P. Christ / Teacher
Doe
Imagery
Males
Masculine
Mere
Pronouns
Male
Meant
Cling
Device
Linguistic
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Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.
Carol P. Christ / Teacher
Compelling
Father
Hands
Psych
Afford
Fathers
Feminists
So Many People
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The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.
Carol P. Christ / Teacher
Acknowledgment
Female
Goddess
Independent
Legitimacy
Simplest
Most
Basic
Beneficent
Meaning
Meaning Of
Symbol
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In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.
Carol P. Christ / Teacher
Art
Ancient
Discovery
Europe
Inventing
Roles
Weaving
Respected
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I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.
Carol P. Christ / Teacher
Funny
Graduation
Inspirational
Religious
University
Few Women
Graduate
Studies
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The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.
Carol P. Christ / Teacher
Ancient
Birth
Delight
Diversity
Europe
Goddess
Regeneration
Unity
Life Nature Death
Powers
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If we do no mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?
Carol P. Christ / Teacher
Female
Imagery
Masculine
Objections
Male
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If we do not mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?
Carol P. Christ / Teacher
Female
Males
Mean
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After much diligent research, aided by other women, I gradually came to understand that beneath the familiar Goddesses of the patriarchy, there is a much more ancient Goddess.
Carol P. Christ / Teacher
Ancient
Diligent
Familiar
Goddess
Patriarchy
Research
Aided
Beneath
Gradually
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In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.
Carol P. Christ / Teacher
Bible
Commandments
Ethics
Goddess
Injustice
Nine
Ten
Ten Commandments
Alternative
Discussed
Offered
Specifically
Structural
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Symbol systems cannot simply be rejected; they must be replaced. Where there is no replacement, the mind will revert to familiar structures at times of crisis, bafflement, or defeat.
Carol P. Christ / Teacher
Defeat
Mind
Times Of Crisis
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Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women's menstrual cycles.
Carol P. Christ / Teacher
Cycles
Goddess
Moon
Three
Waxing
Aspects
Coincide
Reflect
Stages
Symbol
Whose
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The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior.
Carol P. Christ / Teacher
Evidence
Function
Relation
Shocking
Among
Christians
Cruel
Toward
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The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters.
Carol P. Christ / Teacher
Daughter
Men
Challenges
Mother Daughter
Defend
Likely
Norms
Patriarchal
Socialize
Structures
Subordinate
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Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants.
Carol P. Christ / Teacher
Courage
Bravery
Christian
Evident
Goddess
Great Respect
Isis
Nile
Years
Work Women Respect
River
Throughout
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Theologians frequently assert that God has no body, no gender, no race and no age. Most people state that God is neither male nor female. Yet most people become flustered, upset or even angry when it is suggested that the God they know as Lord and Father might also be God the Mother, or Goddess.
Carol P. Christ / Teacher
Father
Mother
Race
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