Mary Daly, Beyond God the Father (Beacon Press) 1973, 145-146:


"A woman who proposed as her project for a course on 'The Women's Revolution and Theological Development' an attempt to create a 'Women's Liturgy.' The problems as they evolved in her consciousness included distrust of anything rigidly structured; unwillingness to do research on 'liturgies', which would suggest a mold into which to cast women's experience; dislike of appealing to the old liturgies of patriarchy for legitimation, since these reek of hierarchy;...

Probably the most striking reflection in this woman's journal was that just as antiracist, antiwar services never really seemed to change the racist and warlike beliefs fo the participating Christians, so a feminist liturgy would change nothing, for 'the form was theirs.' It was the 'form' that counted, no matter what the 'content'...

A 'feminist liturgy' is a contradiction in terms...There is every reason for women to celebrate our becoming and the discovery of our history, but in ever new ways, not encrusted in stagnant, repetitious ritual."


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