From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Mar 04 2002 - 21:25:04 MST
At 04:25 PM 3/4/02 +0100, KPJ wrote:
>|As for genderless pronouns, it is interesting to note that angels, which
>|are sexless according to the scholastics, are usually titled "he".
>In fact, I understand angels are supposed to be hermafrodites.
In the Old Testament, they were able to have sex with `the daughters of
man', and, like demons, were clearly an incorporation of local deities into
a purportedly monotheistic doctrine. The Scholastics argued that angels are
not merely sexless, each is its own distinct species. They are also
bodiless and without parts, so sex would be tricky, but even if performed
it would necessarily be sterile.
Father Damien Broderick
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