God the Child

Small, Weak and Curious Subversions

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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We express the mystery of God with diverse metaphors, but mostly in Adult terms. In this experimental theological adventure, Graham Adams imagines what might flow from a more thorough ‘be-child-ing’ of God. Aware that the Child can be idealized, he selects particular characteristics of childness in order to disrupt God’s omnipresence, omnipotence and omniscience.The smallness of the Child re-envisages divine location in sites of smallness, like an open palm receiving the experiences of the overlooked. The weakness of the Child reimagines divine agency as chaos-event, subverting prevailing patterns of power and evoking relationships of mutuality. And the curiosity of the Child reconceives divine encounter as horizon-seeker, imaginatively and empathetically pursuing the unknown.These possibilities are brought into dialogue both with other theologies (Black, disabled and queer) and with pastoral loss, economic/ecological injustice, and theological education. Through these conversations, God the Child emerges not only as a new model for God, but intrinsic to God’s new social reality which is close at hand.Blogpost: What if God is a child? Graham Adams writes on the SCM Press blog

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-04-30
Mått135 x 216 x 14 mm
Vikt325 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor226
FörlagSCM Press
ISBN9780334065005

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Acknowledgements ixForeword by Karen O'Donnell xiFirst Steps: Introducing God the Child 1Part 1 Wherever God is, God is Small 191 God the Open Palm 212 Grace as Solidarity 383 The Blackness of the Hand 62Part 2 However God Acts, God is Weak 834 God the Chaos-event 865 Justice as Playfulness 1016 The Dis/ability of the Agency 121Part 3 Whatever God Knows, God is Curious 1417 God the Horizon-seeker 1438 Faith as Imagination 1559 The Queerness of the Quest 174Conclusions: Following the Child 188Index of Bible References 197Index of Names and Subjects 199

"Our world contains 1.9 billion children but how might God be represented through them? As Adams puts it, 'in a world of giants, we don’t notice what is small.' In this brilliantly challenging book Adams encourages us toward new ways of imagining God, without all the constructs and sophistication of the adult world, with words like smallness, weakness and curiosity. This new territory opens up huge potential for transformation within our understanding of God."