Title (All Applicants)
Project Advisor(s) (Students Only)
Dr. Eric Stewart
Presentation Type (All Applicants)
Oral Presentation
Disciplines (All Applicants)
Christianity | Liturgy and Worship | Religion
Description, Abstract, or Artist's Statement
Drawing on the work of feminist and queer theologies, this paper examines and challenges traditional God-language, proposing the implementation of genderless language in Christian worship liturgies. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is used as a model for potential methods of shifting God-language. This work focuses on God-language in Lutheran liturgy, focusing on Scripture, hymns, doctrine, and prayer. This work seeks to prove that implementing genderless God-language throughout the liturgy will provide ELCA leaders the opportunity to be more inclusive, while representing God’s transcendence beyond human conceptions such as gender.
Augustana Digital Commons Citation
Ruppel, Eileen A.. "Creating Genderless God-language Through Lutheran Liturgy" (2018). Celebration of Learning.
https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/celebrationoflearning/2018/presentations/26
Creating Genderless God-language Through Lutheran Liturgy
Drawing on the work of feminist and queer theologies, this paper examines and challenges traditional God-language, proposing the implementation of genderless language in Christian worship liturgies. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is used as a model for potential methods of shifting God-language. This work focuses on God-language in Lutheran liturgy, focusing on Scripture, hymns, doctrine, and prayer. This work seeks to prove that implementing genderless God-language throughout the liturgy will provide ELCA leaders the opportunity to be more inclusive, while representing God’s transcendence beyond human conceptions such as gender.
Comments
This paper was written for my Religion Senior Inquiry project.