text: In fact things get quite tedious, once we bring up the missions. Whether there are all that many Christian feminists who "need to see God as Mother," I doubt. But there is plainly a real need on the part of many Christians to feel that they are in possession of a "great Light," and that non-Christians may be referred to as "those in darkness," and it sorely deserves being questioned. (And the Endo/Scorsese "Silence" is alas not the place to start: too simplistic and ideological on the nature of the Jesuit mission, and the religious history of Japan.) The "some" in "some certainty in the body of the Church" needs to be emphasized. Similarly, the Dharmakaya gave some certainty to the Sangha; Spider Woman, to the Hopi; Noûs and Psychê, to all minded creatures seeking to return to the One. To reduce and patronize such seekers, with admirable wisdom traditions of their own, as "those in darkness" is just silly, and discourse that makes sense only within a Catholic ghetto.