The traditional patriarchal notion of the divine follows closely the dualistic view of the self. Both the being of God, which stands over against the world, and the classical attributes of the divine with their implicit stress on solitariness, superiority, and dominating power-over, speak about holy mystery in an essentially unrelated way on the model of the male self typically constructed over against others. We have already seen that such an idea of God is deeply rooted in the ideal of ruling men within patriarchy, the ideal of being untouched by contingency and its pain, and able to best
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