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9780198269502

The Kindness of God Metaphor, Gender, and Religious Language

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    9780198269502

  • ISBN10:

    0198269501

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2008-12-15
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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In middle English Jesus is called 'our kinde Lord' because he is good, but also because he is 'of our kind'-one of us. In this book a leading 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. Janet Soskice argues for the audacity of scriptual metaphors that may look to us worn out by centuries of use. The essays press towards an 'eschatological anthropology' where to be in the image of God, male and female, is to be always a mystery to oneself, until our true beauty is disclosed in the beauty of God. This collection forms a natural extension of the author's argument in her widely-acclaimed volume, Metaphor and Religious Language. Book jacket.

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Janet Martin Soskice is Reader in Philosophical Theology, University of Cambridge.

Table of Contents

Introductionp. 1
Love and Attention: Incarnatenessp. 7
Imago Deip. 35
Creation and Relationp. 52
Calling God 'Father'p. 66
Blood and Defilement: Christologyp. 84
Trinity and the 'Feminine Other'p. 100
The Kindness of God: Trinity and the Image of God in Julian of Norwich and Augustinep. 125
Friendship: love thy neighbourp. 157
Being Lovely: Eschatological Anthropologyp. 181
Bibliographyp. 189
Indexp. 199
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