October 2019

THE SECOND SOCRATES CAFE: WHAT IS A GENDER OF GOD?


On 23rd of October 2019 in Zenica was held the second Socrates Cafe about the topic What is a gender of God?. The facilitator was Nikola Vučić. The participants were the youth of Zenica who were inquiring a gender of God - from the interpretation to the social practice embodied into a hierarchical disbalance. So the dominant questions were How much is God a thinkable category? Why has God always a gender in the interpretation of the sacred texts - it is always He?

Why and how have scholars portrayed God for centuries? Why is God of the masculine gender in the language? The participants ended the inquiring process with the thesis that a woman has being stigmatized by the distorted image of God and that all evil is being done in the name of the God and that a new repeated reading of the sacred texts is necessary.