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I’ll be forever grateful to one of my professors of theology who said, “All language about God is metaphorical.” It is incredibly freeing to think that we will never figure ...
In the Biblical Gospel of Luke, Chapter 13, we find these words: “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem — killing the prophets and stoning those who are sent to you. How often would ...
RNS: One of the biblical metaphors for God you explore is that of a laboring woman. Explain. LW: In Isaiah, God says: “I will bellow like a woman in labor, I will gasp and pant.” ...
But if God is to be the object of our faith, the transcendent Numinous telos towards which our whole lives are called, then God is not a metaphor. God is the reality to which all our stories and songs ...
Spiritually, this tender time has led me to contemplate one of the Bible’s central metaphors for God: God as parent, as father and mother. This is a metaphor I’ve always taken for granted, but now I’m ...