By April D. DeConick
In Holy Misogyny, bible pupil April DeConick wishes actual solutions to the questions which are hardly whispered from the pulpits of the modern Christian church buildings. Why is God male? Why are girls linked to sin? Why cannot girls be clergymen? Drawing on her vast wisdom of the early Christian literature, she seeks to appreciate the conflicts over intercourse and gender within the early church―what they have been and what was once at stake. She explains how those old conflicts have formed modern Christianity and its advertising of male exclusivity and superiority by way of God, church management, and the mattress.
DeConick's detective paintings uncovers previous features of Christianity ahead of later doctrines and dogmas have been imposed upon the church buildings, and the sooner teachings concerning the girl have been distorted. Holy Misogyny indicates how the feminine was once systematically erased from the Christian culture, and why. She concludes that the distortion and erasure of the feminine is the results of historical misogyny made divine writ, a holy misogyny that continues to be with us today.
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But the pattern for it was a century older. This model was carefully restored in the fifth century, copied from the fourthcentury original. Professor Robin Jensen has studied this Catholic font and has suggested that the font looks like a woman’s vulva. She writes: “Candidates would enter from one direction and stand in the well of the font to be baptized. Emerging, then, from the Mother Church’s vagina, they would climb out on the opposite side and present themselves, wet and naked, as new-born babies, ready to join their new siblings and perhaps receive a symbolic swallow of sweetened milk along with wine and bread at the altar rail” (2008: 153).
This is a fresco painted between the years 1378 and 1395 CE. It was uncovered in the last century in the church of St. Jakobus in Urschalling, Upper Bavaria. The old fresco had been painted over in the 1600s when the church was remodeled. It was not until the new paint started to peel in the 1920s that the old fresco came to light. Does this fresco represent the Trinity as critics and church historians have suggested? ” The imagery is very suggestive too, since the three persons are joined below the waist as if they were one figure.
He was a Persian Jew who converted to Christianity and became an abbot of the Mar Mattai monastery near Mosul. In one of his treatises, Aphraates teaches that Genesis 2:24, “a man shall leave his father and 22 W hy was the spirit neutered ? mother,” does not refer to ordinary parents, but to the heavenly Father and the Mother Spirit: Who leaves father and mother to take a wife? The meaning is as follows: as long as a man has not taken a wife, he loves and reveres God his Father and the Holy Spirit his Mother, and he has no other love.