Woman: A Man-Made Artifact or a Divine Creation? | Dr. Michele M. Schumacher

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🗓️ 28 December 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The podcast transcript discusses two contrasting views of feminism, one rooted in existentialist philosophy (e.g., Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir) that emphasizes self-creation and rejection of inherent nature, and another, inspired by the Judeo-Christian tradition (e.g., John-Paul II), that sees human nature as created by God and emphasizes cooperation with divine creation.

This talk was given on October 12, 2022 at Trinity College Dublin.

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About the speaker:

Michele M. Schumacher is a doctor in theology (S.T.D.) and a private docent at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. Among her many publications, she is the editor and contributing author of Women in Christ: Towards a New Feminism (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2004) and author of Metaphysics and Gender: The Normative Art of Nature and Its Human Imitations (Stubenville, OH: Emmaus Academic, 2023); and A Trinitarian Anthropology: Adrienne von Speyr and Hans Urs von Balthasar in Dialogue with St. Thomas Aquinas (Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2014)

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1:10.1	I'd like to begin with the story, actually it's a legend, an ancient Greek legend, of a young child who has observed a sculptor working, as you might imagine, for months at a time time to produce a masterpiece of this sort and
1:31.3	until one day for the first time he discerns within that marble the figure of a horse
1:41.3	and the small child lightens up eyes as big as you can imagine and says,
1:50.0	how did you know that there was a horse in that stone? And we all kind of smile, the naivity of that child.
2:03.6	And why do we smile?
2:05.6	Because the child does not understand the analogy between art and nature,
2:13.6	between God's creation and man's creation.
2:20.0	I mean, he thinks that that horse is by its own powers struggling in there working with the sculptor.
2:32.7	Or perhaps he looks at the sculptor a bit like a rescue worker
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