Beyond God the Father

01Mary Daly held two doctorates in theology from the University of Fribourg and was a practicing Catholic when she published 'Beyond God the Father.'
02She argued that the sentence 'God is male' was not a statement about God but a statement about men — conferring divine authority on maleness itself.
03Boston College repeatedly tried to remove her; she taught women-only classes for 25 years until forced out in 1999.

Mary Daly's 1973 book made one syllogism its entire engine: if God is represented as male, maleness absorbs divinity itself. She called this not metaphor but the operating system of Western civilization. She was a Catholic theologian when she wrote it.