Correspondingly, if the highest reality could be spoken of only in masculine metaphors, men would be more like God and therefore superior to women; similarly, if the feminine metaphors for God were intrinsically inappropriate or inferior to masculine metaphors, women would then be more unlike God and therefore inferior to men. As Johnson underscores, “the equal dignity of women” demands that we be able to speak in feminine metaphors of God (Johnson 1993, 211).
