Sentiment and Sentimentality: Woman's Choice
By MARY SHIVANANDAN
Women’s responsive and receptive nature, as wife and mother, is expressed by empathy, sensitivity and openness to others. This exposes her to the temptation to place affection (sentiment) above reason and objective truth. Only when she acknowledges the fullness of the image of God in herself and places her own integrity and obedience to God’s law above sentiment does she avoid the destructive path of sentimentality.
INTRODUCTION
Women’s responsive and receptive nature, as wife and mother, is expressed by empathy, sensitivity and openness to others. This exposes her to the temptation to place affection (sentiment) above reason and objective truth. Only when she acknowledges the fullness of the image of God in herself and places her own integrity and obedience to God’s law above sentiment does she avoid the destructive path of sentimentality.
Woman’s role as mother is at the heart of the struggle for her soul. It makes her both powerful and vulnerable. Feminists seek the power without accepting the vulnerability. Sentimentality or false sentiment leads them from empathizing with the plight of women with problem pregnancies to removing the reputed cause of the difficulty, the unborn child. The true sentiment of motherhood, which accepts pain and sacrifice for the care of both herself and another, succumbs to sentimentality. Her own integrity is compromised first in yielding inappropriately to a man in sexual intercourse, then even more in destroying her child. [Entire Article]
Women’s responsive and receptive nature, as wife and mother, is expressed by empathy, sensitivity and openness to others. This exposes her to the temptation to place affection (sentiment) above reason and objective truth. Only when she acknowledges the fullness of the image of God in herself and places her own integrity and obedience to God’s law above sentiment does she avoid the destructive path of sentimentality.
INTRODUCTION
Women’s responsive and receptive nature, as wife and mother, is expressed by empathy, sensitivity and openness to others. This exposes her to the temptation to place affection (sentiment) above reason and objective truth. Only when she acknowledges the fullness of the image of God in herself and places her own integrity and obedience to God’s law above sentiment does she avoid the destructive path of sentimentality.
Woman’s role as mother is at the heart of the struggle for her soul. It makes her both powerful and vulnerable. Feminists seek the power without accepting the vulnerability. Sentimentality or false sentiment leads them from empathizing with the plight of women with problem pregnancies to removing the reputed cause of the difficulty, the unborn child. The true sentiment of motherhood, which accepts pain and sacrifice for the care of both herself and another, succumbs to sentimentality. Her own integrity is compromised first in yielding inappropriately to a man in sexual intercourse, then even more in destroying her child. [Entire Article]
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