
- 192 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword: Speaking about God Rightly
- First Steps: Introducing God the Child
- Part 1: Wherever God is, God is Small
- 1. God the Open Palm
- 2. Grace as Solidarity
- 3. The Blackness of the Hand
- Part 2: However God Acts, God is Weak
- 4. God the Chaos-event
- 5. Justice as Playfulness
- 6. The Dis/ability of the Agency
- Part 3: Whatever God Knows, God is Curious
- 7. God the Horizon-seeker
- 8. Faith as Imagination
- 9. The Queerness of the Quest
- Conclusions: Following the Child