A Big-Enough God
A Feminist's Search For A Joyful Theology
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Publisher Description
A Big-Enough God continues the author's literary challenge by offering Christians a path for spiritual journey that encourages belief in a deity that is larger than our imagination. Free from the constraints of doctrine or ecclesiology, the author comes to her task, the joys of revelation, armed with a fresh feminist perspective. Writing as a Christian and a feminist, Maitland approaches the subject of a big-enough God that is beyond gender or image--but not beyond choice--to define theology as the art of telling--and listening to--stories about the divine. If God exists, it is as a being which wishes above all to reveal itself in its work and which labors constantly in its relationships with its creations.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Maitland, British novelist (Three Times Table, Daughter of Jerusalem, Ancestral Truths, etc.) and Christian feminist (A Map of the New Country), has here produced a beautifully written book that is part paean to God and part explication of faith. Despite its subtitle, it is also a thinking person's search, not just a feminist's. Providing in the evident acts of divine creation buttresses for the radical act of human faith, Maitland's is a God who struggles to make Herself known to and loved by Creation. ``Joy is the game, the playing, between God and God's creation,'' Maitland writes; and the result of her chronicling of that game is, as the subtitle more accurately reports, a joyful theology that, like the God it celebrates, looks on creation and finds it very good. Recommended for all who seek to enrich their spiritual journeys or simply to expand their theological sensibilities.
