A Big-Enough God: A Feminist's Search for a Joyful Theology - Hardcover

Maitland, Sara

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9780805041835: A Big-Enough God: A Feminist's Search for a Joyful Theology

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ISBN 10: 0805041834 ISBN 13: 9780805041835

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co, 1995

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A study of contemporary Christian feminist theology presents a spiritual journey that places God in the context of a laborer who works to establish ideal relationships with Her creations, from black holes to sea oysters.

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Maitland's search for a joyful theology carries her into territory shared by religion and science and should prove of particular interest to lovers of language who delight in spiritual dimensions of mathematical speculation and scientific discovery as well as formal theology. That the book took shape in a Lenten series of lectures to a group of Anglican clergy seems to have heightened Maitland's awareness of the role of amateur as lover, and she shares this to good effect with readers. As she notes, she is flirting with ideas, inviting readers to do the same. A Lenten series may seem a surprising place to undertake a search for a joyful theology, but it works well here. The joy springs out of an embrace of risk that allows Maitland to begin with belief in God and dispense with the compulsion to "prove" it. Scientific discoveries, then, become places of encounter with God's activity in the world, occasions for watching the dance and dancing it to learn something of the "nature" of the dancers. Steve Schroeder

From 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.
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