"C. S. Lewis asserts the feminine character of the Christian worshiper as consequent upon the transcendent masculinity of the God who is worshiped, a notion also echoed by H. U. von Balthasar, as in the last century by Matthias Scheeben. For Lewis, see That Hideous Strength (New York: Macmillan, 1965) 316: 'What is above and beyond all things is so masculine that we are all feminine in relation to it.' ... This quite common and quite unreflective reservation of the reality of masculinity to the Creator, over against a relatively feminized creation, implies a reversion to a cosmological dualism radically incompatible both with Catholic sacramental realism and with the doctrine of the Good Creation which underlies that realism."
-- Donald Keefe, Covenantal Theology, p. 310, n. 172
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Well, that is stupidity on steroids.
The supreme act of worship is the Holocaust of the Mass in which Jesus is both Priest and Victim.
Now, he may have been feminine in his spirituality- is that why he never swam the Tiber? - but ABS sure is hell isn't and neither are you
Pax tecum, brother
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