This papers accepts that both Christ and Adam are male and suggests that, if Christ is the new Adam, then the Church is the new Eve. It then claims that Chirst enabled the Church to be one flesh with him since he died on the cross, while Adam and Eve divorced due to sin. The new Eve doesn't want to be like God without God, Eve did.
This paper contends that Christianity goes beyond sex segregation. As it happens, “in the Lord, neither woman is separate from man nor man is separate from woman” (1Cor 11: 11). Speculating about God’s sex, therefore, simply misses the point altogether: “All of you are one in Christ Jesus” (Gal 3, 28b).
This paper illustrates that you cannot know the LORD if you don’t have the mind - better: the intellect - of the Lord, and challenges you to realizing how the whole idea of “having knowledge” is, in point of fact, just a question of being known.
Veils and scarves are not not symbols of men's authority over women. They represent the fact that God clothes humankind with the garments of salvation (Is 61: 10) and dresses them with joy (Ps 30: 11) regardless of their gender.
Spiritual energies coming from below are shown not to support full enlightenement. They lead us to conflate flesh and Spirit, and result in egotism, pride and darkness if not disowned (I mean: denied) at each step in our journey.
Christ's riches are his divine love and glory. The good news is that these are ours too. All of us can participate in them according to "the measure of the full stature of Christ" (Eph 4: 13b).
Christ's command that we love one another just as he loved us is understood in terms of losing one's life and becoming one in Christ at Mass.
God's children come from above. They are of heaven: “As the one of dust, so are those who are of the dust; and as it is the heavenly, so are those who are of heaven” (1Cor 15:48)
God's gaze overcomes subjective tendencies and transcends gender identity. God looks at the heart. The third eye, also called eyes of the heart, is shown to enable us to actually see that.
My name is Alessandra Damiani. I'm a writer, scholar, lecturer and professor at Turin university.
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