Name: Catholicism: End or Beginning?
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Author: Mary Daly
ISBN: 9781009180634

Catholicism: End or Beginning?

Mary Daly

Meg Stapleton Smith

Publication in 1968 of The Church and the Second Sex turned Mary Daly into a leading - arguably the first - Catholic feminist theologian. She then, in 1972, preached an incendiary sermon at Harvard Memorial Church, 'left behind centuries of darkness,' as she put it, and walked out of patriarchal religion. Daly next established herself, with Beyond God the Father (1973), as a post-Christian feminist philosopher. In between these trailblazing writings, she began to draft another book entitled Catholicism: End or Beginning? In the moment that she abandoned the text, she also seemingly renounced the institutional Roman Catholic Church. This volume comprises that lost, unfinished manuscript - remarkably rediscovered - augmented by complementary chapters from six preeminent feminist writers. Though partial, it completes the corpus of an iconic figure in radical liberationist and Catholic thought, delving deep into the mind of a woman who dared to leap into uncharted territories of faith and philosophical imagination.

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In its obituary, the Guardian newspaper called Mary Daly (1928-2010) 'one of the key feminist writers of the twentieth century.' Challenging patriarchy in religion, society, and culture, Daly was a coruscating critic of the ways in which patriarchal institutions operate and discriminate. The Church and the Second Sex (1968), her best-known book, was an attempt to work within a Christian framework. Later works, such as Pure Lust (1984) and Outercourse (1992), emerged from a post-Christian mindset. Written after The Church and the Second Sex and before the influential Beyond God the Father (1973), Catholicism: End or Beginning? explores a renewed and revitalized ecclesiology that transcends the perceived dichotomy between 'Catholic substance' and the 'Protestant principle.' For Daly, resolving this polarity - by reclaiming a new freedom of spirit and intellectual power - would allow theologians to answer the central question: 'Has Catholicism reached its end, or is there hope for a genuine new beginning?'

Cuprins

Introduction Meg Stapleton Smith; Part I. Catholicism: End or Beginning? Mary Daly; Part II. Engagements and Reflections: 1. The Many Minds of Mary Daly Mary E. Hunt; 2. Reformist Catholicism: The Road Not Taken for Mary Daly Lisa Sowle Cahill; 3. Feminist Intrigues at the Limits of Schizoid Theology Siobhán Garrigan; 4. Abstraction, Mysticism, and Revolution: From Catholicism: End or Beginning? to Beyond God the Father and Pure Lust Jennifer Rycenga; 5. Catholicism: End or Beginning? An Open-ended Journey Toward a Theology of Difference Zahra Moballegh; 6. A More Dalyan Christianity Xochitl Alvizo.

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Has Catholicism reached its end or is there hope for a genuine new beginning? This remarkably retrieved – hitherto lost and unpublished – work by iconic radical thinker Mary Daly, complemented by reflections from six preeminent feminist writers, raises profound questions that seemingly led to Daly's final break with the Catholic Church.