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Elizabeth Johnson Use of “Ultimate Concern” and Sources
Elizabeth Johnson is a vital Catholic feminist theologian whose responsibility has influence world-wide. Elizabeth Johnston, on December 6, 1941, was born in the U.S. she was raised in Brooklyn in an Irish-Catholic, and she developed her theologian ideas from the family background. She received her education in catholic secondary and primary schools. At an early age, she entered the Sisters of St. Joseph of Brentwood. At Manhattan College is where she studied theologian studies. Her initial theological interest was her doctoral thesis and Christology. She elaborates her work as an invigorating feminist Christology, which has six aspects. As Johnston forms her knowledge of God in Striking female images, targeted on Sophia, she describes that God’s feminine photos are not adequate because what is required is God’s new re-conceptualization.
The trial to bring God’s feminine issue into the Trinity by talking of the Holy Spirit as the feminine is an underprovided method for many reasons. Johnston declares that for God, female imagery must be applied for the whole mystery of God. It is not enough to recognize one approach of God. Female imagery as the ultimate concern for Johnston explains why serving God should be for every being regardless of the gender (Rakoczy 143). According to the utmost regard by Johnston, Trinitarian theology usually starts with Creator as the first person and source of all human beings. Nevertheless, Johnston starts with spirit because, in numerous talks she had with women as she divided her theological project, they informed her that their experience with the Creator begins with the heart.
Her central regions of the target for Johnston recordings are the mystery of God, Mary, Jesus Christ, religion, and science, the suffering of humans, ethics, and aspects associated with women (Rakoczy 150). Johnston says that God’s masculine conditions are attributable to an oppressive patriarchal system. God’s language should be analyzed, not mainly because of its adequacy for expressing God’s truth.
According to Johnson, there is an emphasis on the reason; Bible, experience, and tradition, as well as they, are perceived with any clarity. It is essential to obey the scripture. Johnson bases her argument as a theologian on the importance of using the Bible as and trusting in its scripture (Vanhoozer et al. 30). Furthermore, other traditions should be followed without questioning. Religion is a matter of believing, and the question is not allowed (Rakoczy 147). Bible expects that Christians to trust the scripture. In her works as a theologian, Johnston has emphasized why people should believe in the scripture.
Tradition is very significant. Almost all Christians understand their faith via the witness of others in the past and present generations. Part of the church in practices and beliefs are shared (Rakoczy 153). Johnson realized that since the ancient times, Christians have hunted to penalize those they prefer as heretics, to safeguard the faithful from destructive doctrines and motivate those in problem to change to the truth.
In reality, individuals do not depend wholly on reason, scripture, tradition, and experience alone to create God’s picture, the church, the world, and themselves. In any case, practice is heavily based on the Bible and filtered via the mirror of the reason ((Vanhoozer et al. 50). And what looks reasonable may be influenced by the Christian experience both present and past, whether recorded in the Bible pages, passed on in other means or faced in the trial to be transparent to Christ prayer, everyday life, and worship.
Works Cited
Rakoczy, Susan. “The theological vision of Elizabeth A Johnson.” Scriptura: International Journal of Bible, Religion, and Theology in Southern Africa 98.1 (2008): 137-155.
Vanhoozer, Kevin, and Martin Warner, eds. Transcending boundaries in philosophy and theology: reason, meaning, and experience. Routledge, 2016.