Theos-Talk Archives (August 2005 Message tt00277)

I agree Bart, however these types of statements give us an idea of 
the mindsets that have effected cultures in different ways.
I have not suggested that everything Aquinas wrote was "objectionable"
Your "lesson in logic" is a good one though.

A writer who has written a very good thesis on this imo is Matthew 
Fox in his books 'Original Blessing' and 'The coming of the Cosmic 
Christ heres one quote from the latter work that makes a good point I 
think. 

"Of course, the issue of justice and sexuality include justice for 
sexual minorities and the struggle for a society without sexism.
The struggle for justice towards women and towards the mother 
principle which is being beset by what I refer to as matricide is 
part and parcel of every authentic cultural sexual awakening today.
But matricide also includes within it a kind of patricide as well.
The father will become distorted in this process for there is no 
mother without a father.
A distorted fatherhood is what a pathological patriarchy is all 
about."

Matthew Fox The Coming of the Cosmic Christ pp.174


Cheers

Perry


--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> And what does that have to do with whether or not a woman has 
a soul? A 
> lesson in logic: Just because someone says one objectional thing 
does 
> not mean that he is saying ALL objectional things.
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> Bart
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> Perry Coles wrote:
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> > St. Thomas Aquinas (1225 to 1274 CE): 
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> > "As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and 
misbegotten, 
> > for the active force in the male seed tends to the production of 
a 
> > perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of 
woman 
> > comes from a defect in the active force or from some material 
> > indisposition, or even from some external influence."
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> > http://www.religioustolerance.org/lfe_bibl.htm
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