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IDEOLOGY AND THE PROBLEM OF NAMING: A REPLY RUSSELL T. McCUTCHEON His thought is redneck, yours is doctrinal and mine is deliciously supple. Terry Eagleton In the essay to which Shannon Clarkson and Pamela Milne respond,' I attempt to make clear what I see to be the difference between gender- inclusive Christian god-language (such as replacing masculine pronouns and metaphors with inclusive alternates), whose motives I termed theological, and generic inclusive language (such as substituting persons for men) which I termed political. Having distinguished between these two, I proposed that the scholar of religion qua scholar had no business entering the first debate over whether the Christian, or any other conception of deity for that matter, had a gender, let alone existed, for that would constitute disputing the characteristics of a deity-a dispute which compromises such a scholar's role. Along a similar line, I suggested that using God as a generic term for the focus (Ninian Smart's term) of a non-christian religious community was improper and reflected either academic sloppiness or, more likely, an implicit Christian bias toward some sort of theology of religious pluralism. ' Shannon Clarkson, "God-Talk: By What Name Do We Call God?," MTSR 3/1
Method & Theory in the Study of Religion – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1991
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