Carol Patrice Christ Quotes

Carol Patrice Christ (21)

Birth:	1945
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Author, Teacher

About

She is the author of the widely reprinted essay "Why Women Need the Goddess,", which argues in favor of the concept of there having been an ancient religion of a supreme Goddess. Christ has written five influential books on women's spirituality and feminist theology. She co-edited the classic anthologies Weaving the Visions (1989) and Womanspirit Rising (1979/1989). These included feminist religious writing from writers from a very diverse range of religious backgrounds. She has taught at major universities in the United States, including Columbia University, Harvard Divinity School, Pomona College, San Jose State, and the California Institute of Integral Studies. As director of the Ariadne Institute conducts pilgrimages to sacred sites in Greece containing artifacts of matriarchal religion. She has for many years been a resident of the Greek island of Lesbos, the home of the poet Sappho.

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Births

• 1945 - Tobias Wolff
• 1977 - Rebecca Loos
• 1882 - Clarence Stein
• 1947 - Salman Rushdie
• 1861 - Douglas Haig

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• 1811 - Samuel Chase
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• 1937 - J. M. Barrie
• 1902 - John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
• 1956 - Thomas John Watson, Sr.

• At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.

  Carol Patrice Christ

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Goddess, Interest

• After much diligent research, aided by other women, I gradually came to understand that beneath the familiar Goddesses of the patriarchy, there is a much more ancient Goddess.

  Carol Patrice Christ

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Understand

• In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.

  Carol Patrice Christ

  Topics in Nature, Religion

  Tags in Book

• Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.

  Carol Patrice Christ

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Deep, People

• If we do no mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?

  Carol Patrice Christ

  Topics in God

  Tags in Mean

• Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.

  Carol Patrice Christ

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Before

• In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.

  Carol Patrice Christ

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Making, Respected, Women

• In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

  Carol Patrice Christ

  Topics in Death, Religion

  Tags in Birth

• Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women’s lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women’s menstrual cycles.

  Carol Patrice Christ

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Lives

• The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.

  Carol Patrice Christ

  Topics in Death, Nature

  Tags in Old, Regeneration

• Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.

  Carol Patrice Christ

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Powerful, Language

• The simple act of telling a woman’s story from a woman’s point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

  Carol Patrice Christ

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Woman, Simple

• The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to value and behavior.

  Carol Patrice Christ

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Often, Behavior

• The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters.

  Carol Patrice Christ

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Men, Must

• Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants.

  Carol Patrice Christ

  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Women, Courage

• The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.

  Carol Patrice Christ

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Basic, Meaning

• The women’s movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

  Carol Patrice Christ

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Leaving

• Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?

  Carol Patrice Christ

  Topics in God

  Tags in Everyone

• Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.

  Carol Patrice Christ

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, New

• I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960′s.

  Carol Patrice Christ

  Topics in Religion, Work

  Tags in Women, Doing, Become