Mary Daly died on Sunday at age 80. I read Daly's "Beyond God the Father" in Jim Cone's introductory systematic theology class.
If the legacy of a scholar is the shift that they make in one's consciousness, Daly's book did more than any other to shift my awareness of the incredible power and responsibility that goes into naming and characterizing God. She also placed patriarchy and my place in it firmly in my self-awareness and in my prayers of confession.
She was bold enough to be fiercely wrong and blazingly right.
This was a lovely video tribute to Mary. Thanks for posting it. While it is very hard to put into words the impact Dr. Daly's work had on my life, the one thing is she fully represented the revolutionary lesbian feminist to me. She embodied my most heroic self image, and all I longed for most in the company of women, she put out there for all women to gather. She never compromised her priciples and had the radical notion that a women's revolution will happen when women walk out of patriarchy and never look back.
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Audrey, thanks for posting. I love the word "heroic." We can't use it much anymore, can we?
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