God the Child
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God the Child

Small, Weak and Curious Subversions

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 23 Dec |Learn more

God the Child

Small, Weak and Curious Subversions

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Title page
  2. Copyright information
  3. Contents
  4. Dedication
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Foreword: Speaking about God Rightly
  7. First Steps: Introducing God the Child
  8. Part 1: Wherever God is, God is Small
  9. 1. God the Open Palm
  10. 2. Grace as Solidarity
  11. 3. The Blackness of the Hand
  12. Part 2: However God Acts, God is Weak
  13. 4. God the Chaos-event
  14. 5. Justice as Playfulness
  15. 6. The Dis/ability of the Agency
  16. Part 3: Whatever God Knows, God is Curious
  17. 7. God the Horizon-seeker
  18. 8. Faith as Imagination
  19. 9. The Queerness of the Quest
  20. Conclusions: Following the Child