Women and the Word: The Gender of God in the New Testament and the Spirituality of Women

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Paulist Press, 1986 - 81 pagini
Suggestions for resolving the problem of an exclusively male God-image that are both faithful to the tradition and liberating for women. +

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Pagina 57 - For consider your call, brethren ; not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth ; but God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong, God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.
Pagina 30 - When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.
Pagina 31 - Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk. I took them up in my arms; but they did not know that I healed them. I led them with cords of compassion, with the bands of love, and I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws, and I bent down to them and fed them.
Pagina 52 - He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation; for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities — all things were created through him and for him.
Pagina 52 - God, the first-born of all creation for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities— all things were created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
Pagina 57 - It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD set his love upon you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples...
Pagina 30 - Did I conceive all this people? Did I bring them forth, that thou shouldst say to me, 'Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries the sucking child, to the land which thou didst swear to give their fathers?
Pagina 51 - O God of my fathers and Lord of mercy, who hast made all things by thy word, and by thy wisdom hast formed man...
Pagina 54 - Paul uses the analogy of the human body to elucidate his teaching that Christians form Christ's body. But the analogy holds because they are in literal fact the risen organism of Christ's person in all its concrete reality.
Pagina 31 - But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a child quieted at its mother's breast; like a child that is quieted is my soul.

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