Mary Daly: In Memoriam

Mary Daly, a major voice in 20th century theology has died, age 81.   She was a provocative and controversial personality, advocating a radical feminism at Boston College, where she began her career as a pioneering female Roman Catholic theologian in the 1960s.  She challenged the traditional church's patriarchal and misogynist ways and eventually declared herself to be "post-christian." She also self-described as a "radical lesbian feminist."  An obituary is in today's New York Times.

In my estimation Mary Daly's work will endure because it is perched at the beginning of what will inevitably become a post-christian worldview, an outlook that has cut loose from outworn forms of institutional Christianity and seeks to recover the revolutionary nature of Jesus's teachings, such as radical egalitarianism.  She was a courageous and creative spirit.