ABSTRACT
The redemption of the discourse is necessary if the Church is to come to a deeper understanding and experience of the Lord whom it confesses. This is a fundamental task for theology which is only just beginning. If discourse intends to be a communication then it presupposes not only speaking but listening. The word of women is untrustworthy and the ancient wound is played out in the legitimisation of their silencing. Women may speak but only when they have been tutored by men to speak like men. In this way the mythic hegemony of the universal subject is maintained. Moreover, women are forced to mirror this male creation and in so doing enter into service of male fantasies. If the bodily experience and reality of women is suppressed or evacuated of its earthliness for the sake of a male version of what it should be, then creation itself is mutilated.
