The kindness of God : metaphor, gender, and religious language by Soskice, Janet Martin instant download

The kindness of God : metaphor, gender, and religious language by Soskice, Janet Martin instant download

viii, 203 pages ; 21 cm, \"In this book a scholar of religious language and feminism analyses the intimate and familial biblical imagery for God and divine action - Father, Mother, Son, Friend, being 'born again' - in the context of the central loci of Christian theology: doctrine of God and spirituality, Imago Dei and anthropology, Creation, Christology and Cross, Trinity and eschatology. Author Janet Soskiee argues for the audacity of scriptural metaphors that may look to us worn out by centuries of use.\"--Jacket, Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-198) and index, Love and attention: incarnateness -- Imago Dei -- Creation and relation -- Calling God 'Father' -- Blood and defilement: Christology -- Trinity and the 'feminine other' -- The kindness of God: trinity and the image of God in Julian of Norwich and Augustine -- Friendship: love thy neighbor -- Being lovely: eschatological anthropology