HJI Int'l Conference: Session III - Christology and Women: Relevance for Peace

Session III - Christology and Women: Relevance for Peace
Traditional Christology, which is meant to show God’s intention to build the Kingdom of God through His incarnation in Jesus Christ, has lacked the element of divine femininity. The consequence is that Christianity has fostered attitudes that privilege men above women, and societies that discriminate against women and other marginalized people. This deficiency has been identified and addressed by twentieth-century theologians, among them Rosemary Radford Ruether (1936-2022), who elucidated ways that Jesus Christ displayed the love and work of God who is feminine as well as masculine. The authority of God’s feminine voice has also been a feature of new religious movements in Korea, which draw upon shamanistic folk religion where female mudangs have privileged access to Heaven. The fullest expression of gender balance in Christology is Unificationism, which proclaims the advent of the Only-begotten Daughter standing side-by-side with the Lord of the Second Advent.
•Moderator: Dr. Theodore Shimmyo, Professor of Theology Emeritus, HJI
•Rosemary Radford Ruether’s Christology: Ms. Bruna Allen, Graduate Student, HJI
•The Religious Feminine in Korean New Religions: Dr. Alexa Blonner, Australian Association for the Study of Religion
•From the Feminine in Christology to the Feminine in Ontology: Opening to a Gender-Balanced Understanding of God: Dr. Andrew Wilson, Professor of Scriptural Studies, HJI