Original solitude reprised Sample Clauses

Original solitude reprised. The Xxxxxx Xxxx Solitude as a characteristic applicable to Xxxx has received criticism from some feminist theologians. As the title of her 1976 book, Alone of All Her Sex, indicates, Xxxxxx Xxxxxx sees Xxxx as an isolated figure whose very isolation keeps her from being a serviceable role model for contemporary women. Because Xxxx’s predicates are superlatives, Xxxxxx argues that ‘in the very celebration of the perfect human woman, both humanity and women were subtly denigrated.’141 Similarly, Xxxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx is motivated by a feminist hermeneutic in her 2006 book, Truly Our Sister. Xxxxxxx, like Xxxxxx, is committed to a rebalancing of Xxxxxx tropes so that she ceases to appear as ‘feminine perfection personified.’142 Xxxxxxx focuses instead upon Xxxx as disciple who is on her own pilgrimage of faith. As ‘sister’ she relates in a non-hierarchical scheme within a structure of equality. For such a Xxxx, her modes of relation to others are those of association, partnership and friendship. Xxxxxx and Xxxxxxx are intent on reclaiming the horizontal axis of the Xxxx figure as an essential balance to the vertical axis which had dominated her veneration in the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches. Xxxxxxx could be seen as extending the work begun at Vatican II concerning Xxxx’s place within the church. While the final chapter of Vatican II’s Lumen Gentium143 which deals with Xxxx, retains exalted language, such as ‘the