Mourner, Mother, Midwife: Reimagining God's Delivering Presence in the Old

Description: Traditional understandings of God as deliverer depict God as a mighty liberator-warrior and wrathful avenger. Juliana Claassens explores alternative Old Testament metaphors that portray God as mourner, mother, and midwife--images that resist the violence and bloodshed associated with the dominant warrior imagery. Claassens discusses how metaphors of God as life giver began to develop in the aftermath of the trauma of Israelite exile. She offers compelling examples of how this feminine imagery still has the power to inspire hope amidst violence in today's world. She demonstrates that God's delivering presence helps people of faith cope with trauma and suffering on many levels--individual, community, national, and global--while bringing forth new life out of death and destruction.

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Item Length: 22.9 cm

Item Weight: 0.18 kg

Book Title: Mourner, Mother, Midwife: Reimagining God's Delivering Presence in the Old Testament

Item Height: 229mm

Item Width: 152mm

Author: L. Juliana M. Claassens

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Topic: Religious History, Christianity

Publisher: Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S.

Publication Year: 2012

Number of Pages: 140 Pages