GOD is TRUTH, Part 1 ******* God as absolute Truth references throughout Championing Womanhood ******* Athanasius (298? – 373), Bishop of Alexandria — Defence Before Constantius, the divine referred to as Truth. St. Basil the Great (329? – 379), Archbishop of Caesarea — “He is Himself truth….” St. Augustine (354-430) — Confessions. God being …
GOD is MIND, Part 2 ******* We continue with how this understanding of God as Mind affects our view of women: So if God is divine Mind, is Deity masculine, feminine, or both? Today, those in the West who need not subjugate women to psychologically justify their own self-worth recognize that women can think as …
GOD is MIND, Part 1 ******* Let us examine from Chapter 5 several names for God as they have developed over the millenniums and how they have been interpreted. God as Divine Mind … Over the centuries of the Christian era, a number of both Catholic and Protestant theologians and literacy scholars have addressed Deity …
GOD is LIFE Part 2 ******* Ages ago women were honored as the source of life. But with the coming of patriarchy, men were thought to be the only contributors to the fetus’ life and thus Life itself must also be only masculine. And the image and likeness of this male Life must be men …
GOD is ETERNAL LIFE, Part 1 ******* Plotinus — Definition of Eternity would be that it is a life limitless in the full sense of being all the life there is … To the notion of a Life (a Living-Principle) … Life is instantaneously infinite. ******* St. Augustine — Confessions “Thou Thyself art supremely Essence …
GOD is LOVE, Part 2. Today the biblical words “God is Love” are carved into or painted on the walls of many Christian churches and Sunday schools. Men in the past have tried to usurp “God is Love” as being totally masculine, but there can be no denying this name for Deity as …
GOD is LOVE, Part 1. God is Divine Love. Gregory of Nyssa (331?-394?), a Greek father of the church — On the Making of Man after identifying God as Mind wrote, “Again, God is love, and the fount of love. John Cassian (4th-5th century), a reclusive religious writer — …
GOD is SOUL. Elohim not only has had to face down the idea of an anthropomorphic god. A pantheistic Greek philosophical god evolved known by the expression, “God is the soul of the world.” Marcus Varro (116-27? BCE), a Roman scholar and writer, along with others, brought this philosophy to Rome. (Chapter …
Introduction to the Understanding God Series. We are now beginning a series of ideas from Chapter 5 on understanding God. We will look at where many very meaningful names for God have been explored. These ideas have developed over the millenniums. First, we will look at who amongst the many …
The process has begun for publishing the Second Edition of Fluctuating Equality Imposed on Women with edits and a new title. This title seems too general, somewhat confusing, and does not reveal the unfolding of ideas that go beyond just historical perspectives. This new title reveals the foundation of the book with the combined deeper …
Another interesting development in the growing realization of the equality of women is the growing number of women in the clergy. For example, we have a quote from Dr. Dermott’s book Breakthrough Analysis of Daniel’s Prophecies: “…the Church of Sweden and the Church of Norway have accepted and now practice gender equality; … at last …
As previously mentioned: There are 36 references to women and their rights in Breakthrough Analysis of Daniel’s Prophecies. “There appears to be an additional side blessing related to the 1335-year prophecy other than that directly focused on the Second Coming. …many women during World War II, replacing the men shipped overseas, had built U.S. bombers …
As mentioned in the previous blog, there are 36 references to women and their rights in Breakthrough Analysis of Daniel’s Prophecies. For these next few months, we will be looking at several of these references. In the final chapter, Chapter 20, of his Daniel’s prophecies book, Dr. Dermott introduces a series of sixteen questions with …
Combined Focus of Both Daniel’s Prophecies and Women’s Equality books. In both of his books, Dr. Dermott has focused on the importance of the causes as well as the influences of past events throughout history and how they have affected the present. He truly digs deeply to uncover the truths of the events through the …
The following is a fourth passage from the Epilogue of my book Championing Womanhood: We had more than fifteen thousand years of rule by women, called matriarchy. As Endo-European, patriarchic culture slowly replaced the old European, feminine culture, a thousand years or so of transition began to strip women of their power and rights. As …
The following is a third passage from the Epilogue of my book Championing Womanhood: One of the defects of human nature is to look down on others so that we feel better about ourselves. The treatment of females in Africa, the Mideast, and Asia is obviously deplorable. But do Western men, at least in part, …
The following is another passage in the Epilogue of my book Championing Womanhood: To think that the past does not influence the present is to live in the Adamic mist with its confusing consequences. Collect all the ancient superstitions and fears pertaining to blood and the woman’s menstruation, all the Aristotelian notions, prejudices, and arrogance …
The following is a passage in the Epilogue of my book Championing Womanhood: Say that two football teams arrive at the Super Bowl rated with an equal chance of winning. Although equal, the two come with different strengths and different weaknesses, with their various ups and downs during the season. Likewise, men and women come …
I am now reading your book on women’s equality and have been impressed with the ideas in Chapter 2, bringing out God as Mother as well as Father. Two of your examples stood out and are especially meaningful to me: 1. This passage, “As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you,” in …
Since March is Women’s History Month, it is important to remember the foundation of women’s equality: our Maker is Mother as well as Father. Also to learn the history of the challenges to women’s equality over the centuries. See my book on women’s equality for examples in the Old Testament (Chapter 2), Jesus’ examples, resistance …
I often wonder how many women are aware that in the thirteenth century Thomas Aquinas Christianized Aristotle’s pagan writings, including his diabolical ideas about women. Clergy even wondered whether a woman had a soul. For example, that ancient Greek philosopher claimed that women were inferior to men because women had fewer teeth. A dentist assured …
On your website page about your book, Championing Womanhood (now 2nd edition of Fluctuating Equality Imposed on Women), you mention Aristotle and his “diabolical” views of women. What are some of his views that you think are so wrong? From the author: Yes, these horrible views of Aristotle are fully answered on pages 88-106 of …