Liberating Images of God

2013 ◽  
pp. 15-25
Keyword(s):  
Images Of God

Review of The Mother's Songs: Images of God the Mother.

1987 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-383
Author(s):  
Emily M. Reynolds ◽  
Allen E. Bergin
Keyword(s):  
Images Of God

Mission in Britain today: some modest reflections and proposals

Holiness ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-176
Author(s):  
Stephen Bevans
Keyword(s):  
Technical Change ◽  
Adaptive Change ◽  
Image Of God ◽  
Images Of God ◽  
Positive Image ◽  
The Church

AbstractWhile ‘Mission in Britain today’ includes many aspects, this article focuses on the witness of the Church within Britain’s contemporary highly secularized culture. Rather than ‘technical change’, the Church is called to work at ‘adaptive change’, and so to concentrate less on strategies and more on internal renewal. Such adaptive change involves freeing people’s imagination from simplistic and abusive images of God, offering a positive image of God that is inspiring and truly challenging, recognizing the kenotic nature of the Church, and realizing that mission is carried out in a world of grace where God is already present and working

Where Has Yahweh Gone? Reclaiming Unsavory Images of God in New Testament Studies

2009 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-76
Author(s):  
James Metzger
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Reading Strategies ◽  
Images Of God ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
New Testament Studies ◽  
The Rich

AbstractIt is argued that recent publications in New Testament Studies, including those deploying its most progressive reading strategies, betray a strong predilection for an omnibenevolent, just, compassionate deity who does not offend our sensibilities. Given the rich, variegated profusion of alternative representations of the deity in the Hebrew Bible, a primary intertext for scholars constructing God in the New Testament writings, it is surprising that so few of these portraits are ever invoked or seriously engaged, which suggests a proclivity to religionism in the discipline. After delineating several benefits of the Bible's unsavory portrayals of God and disadvantages to today's fashionable deity of love, mercy, and justice, it is proposed that a broadening of our intertextual repertoire to include unflattering representations of the divine might open up new avenues in our hermeneutical explorations.

Images of God as They Relate to Life Satisfaction and Hopelessness

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherry A. M. Steenwyk ◽  
David C. Atkins ◽  
Jamie D. Bedics ◽  
Bernard E. Whitley
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Images Of God

IMAGINATION AND METAPHOR IN THEOLOGICAL LANGUAGE

2020 ◽  
pp. 48-63
Author(s):  
Svetlana A. Konacheva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Religious Language ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Western History ◽  
Theological Hermeneutics ◽  
Images Of God ◽  
Language Interpretation ◽  
Human Understanding ◽  
Theological Language

The paper investigates the religious language interpretation in the contemporary continental philosophic theology. The author presents the central role of the imagination and metaphor in theological language. The diacritical hermeneutics of Richard Kearney is analyzed as an example of the theological language transition from the theologics to theopoetics. Modifications in the theological language are associated with transformations in the understanding of theology itself, which becomes a topological and tropological study. It considers the interpretation of imagination in Kearney’s early works, his attempts to describe “paradigmatic shifts” in the human understanding of imagination in different epochs of Western history. The author highlights mimetic paradigm of the pre-modern imagination, productive paradigm of the modern imagination and parodic paradigm of the postmodern imagination. Analysis of Kearney’s “biblical” interpretation of imagination allows one to understand the imagination as the point of contact of God with humanity. She also considers how Ricoeur’s theory of metaphor influences the development of the poetic language in postmodern Christian theology and demonstrates that poetic and religious languages are brought together by an “imaginative variations”. The author argues that turning to imagination in religious language allows theological hermeneutics to move from the static to kinetic images of God.

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