Publication

2018-04-19 - Cascade Books

Language

English

Word Count

38,500 words, Guess

Page Count

154 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-10153261909X
  • ISBN-139781532619090
  • Library of Congress Control Number2017277535
  • OCLC Control Number1041191965
  • Better World Books9781532619090
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCBT153.M6A40 2018
  • LCCBT153.M6 A44 2018

Description

The hope of this book is that it awakens desire to know more intimately the God who breaks through our compartmentalization and naming. While most in the West have heard God's name as almost exclusively masculine, a child growing up in Israel would have experienced the Spirit of God, and Lady Wisdom, as female. This ruach, the breath of God, brooded over the face of the deep in the creation story like a hovering mother bird. The God of the Bible and the early church has been described with both masculine and feminine imagery, referred to by the church fathers and mystics as both Mother and Father. In our time we have lost much of this rich feminine imagery. This book explores not only this historical knowing of God but also more contemporary writers, such as Carl Jung, Paul Young (The Shack), George MacDonald, and Thomas Merton. Each of these men engaged with the Divine Feminine, giving us examples of how we too may find God more deeply and more intimately.-- back cover.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Awakening DesirePaperbackCascade Books2018-04-19

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