A few posts ago, I wuz treeted to a scolding by a commenter. The scolding ended with “…and learn how to spell Theology!!” I told the commenter
I’d nevver uzed the word “theology” on this blog, so howl cud I misspell it? Acshally, that was just me just trying to be cute. “Thealogy” spelled with an “a” not an “o” (like I do in
Radical Goddess Thealogy, rilly, trooly, is a word:
“Thealogy is literally the study of the Goddess (Greek θεά, thea, "goddess" + λόγος, logos, "study"). In 1993, Charlotte Caron's definition of thealogy as "reflection on the divine in feminine and feminist terms" appeared, but the term actually originates in the writings of Isaac Bonewits in 1974.
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“In 1989 Ursula King notes [the] growing usage [of ‘theaology’] as a fundamental departure from traditional male-oriented theology, characterised by its privileging of symbols over rational explanation. She chronicles sympathetically that
‘…most writing on the Goddess, when not historical, is either inspirational or devotional, and a systematically ordered body of thought, even with reference to symbols, is only slowly coming into existence’ (1989:126-127).”
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A few posts ago, I wuz treeted to a scolding by a commenter. The scolding ended with “…and learn how to spell Theology!!” I told the commenter I’d nevver uzed the word “theology” on this blog, so howl cud I misspell it? Acshally, that was just me just trying to be cute. “Thealogy” spelled with an “a” not an “o” (like I do in Radical Goddess Thealogy, rilly, trooly, is a word:
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