Naming God

Celia Wolf-Devine (Emerita, Stonehill College) has published books, chapters, and articles on a variety of topics. Selected works include an essay on Descartes' metaphysics and philosophy of science forthcoming in The Cartesian Mind (Routledge) and Abortion: A Communitarian Pro-life Perspective (co-authored with Philip Devine) in Abortion: Three Perspectives (Oxford, 2009). Her most recent work on prayer is entitled The Heart Transformed: Prayer of Desire (Alba House) and A New Companion to Prayer: Meeting God Where You Are (Catholic Truth Society). She has also recently completed an essay on Descartes’ Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science for The Cartesian Mind (Roman & Littlefield) and Welcoming the Unborn: Towards a Politics of Inclusion in the Palgrave Anthology of Philosophy and Public Policy (2018). She can be followed through her website: www.celiawolfdevine.com.

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: Religion: Naming the Supreme Being
Mircea Eliade, “The Sacredness of Nature and Cosmic Religion:
Sky Gods and Mother Earth""
Genesis: Chapters 1–3
Carol P. Christ, “Why Women Need the Goddess: Phenomenological, Psychological, and Political Reflections""
Elizabeth Johnson, “Basic Linguistic Options: God, Women, Equivalence . . .""
Juli Loesch Wiley, “On the Fatherhood of God”
Juli Loesch Wiley, “Is ‘God the Mother’ Just as Good?”
Juli Loesch Wiley, “In Defense of the Male Priesthood”
Richard Davis, “Making Inclusive Language Inclusive: A Christian Gay Man’s View
Susanne Heine, “God the Father, God the Mother, and Goddesses”
Gary Culpepper, “Why Christians Name God ‘Father’”
Rosemary Radford Ruether, “Ecofeminism: Symbolic and Social Connections of the Oppression of Women and the Domination of Nature”
Edith Black, “Women in Genesis 1–3”
Tamar Frankiel, “Traditional Judaism and Feminine Spirituality”
Celia Wolf-Devine, “Difference Feminism and the Role of Women in the Church”
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