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Mourner Mother Midwife Reimagining Gods Delivering ~ Juliana Claassens’ book Mourner Mother Midwife is a breath of fresh air Claassens liberates her readers from limiting language about God which she argues has molded society in unhealthy ways She offers several alternative biblical images for talking about God and reimagines some of the images we already

Mourner Mother Midwife Reimagining Gods Delivering ~ Mourner Mother Midwife Reimagining Gods Delivering Presence in the Old Testament by L Juliana M Claassens L Juliana M Claassens L Juliana M Claassens is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Stellenbosch University in South Africa

Mourner Mother Midwife Reimagining Gods Delivering ~ Praise for Mourner Mother Midwife Juliana Claassens writes a compelling and moving book that challenges the centrality of the violent punitive God in interpretation and theology To broaden our biblical perceptions of God she zeroes in on biblical images of God the Deliverer Mother Mourner and Midwife

Mourner Mother Midwife Reimagining God’s Delivering ~ Weaving together biblical scholarship profound metaphor and the full range of human experience Mourner Mother Midwife Reimagining God’s Delivering Presence in the Old Testament represents a beautiful new pattern on the loom of tradition It provides a valuable resource not only for classrooms and personal reflection but also for worship settings

Mourner Mother Midwife Reimagining Gods Delivering ~ Mourner Mother Midwife Reimagining Gods Delivering Presence in the Old Testament Claassens L Juliana M Louisville Westminster John Knox 2012 pp x 126 2500 Description Traditional understandings of God as deliverer depict God as a mighty liberatorwarrior 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

Mourner Mother Midwife Reimagining Gods Delivering ~ Mourner Mother Midwife Reimagining Gods Delivering Presence in the Old Testament 9780664238360 by L Juliana M Claassens Hear about sales receive special offers more You can unsubscribe at any time

Mourner Mother Midwife Reimagining Gods Delivering ~ Mourner Mother Midwife Reimagining Gods Delivering Presence in the Old Testament Traditional understandings of God as deliverer depict God as a mighty liberatorwarrior and wrathful avenger

Mourner Mother Midwife Reimagining Gods Delivering ~ Mourner Mother Midwife Reimagining Gods Delivering Presence in the Old Testament Westminster John Knox 2012

L Juliana M Claassens the Old Testament Delivering ~ delivering presence Claassens recovers biblical imagery of God as Mourner Mother and Midwife The book moves along a spectrum of personal and communal deliverance The constructive moves of the final chapter demonstrate the significance of reimagining God’s presence in relation to transformative teaching pastoral care and worship In chapter two Claassens introduces God as mourner she juxtaposes the weeping of the

Mourner Mother Midwife Paper L Juliana M Claassens ~ Praise for Mourner Mother Midwife Juliana Claassens writes a compelling and moving book that challenges the centrality of the violent punitive God in interpretation and theology To broaden our biblical perceptions of God she zeroes in on biblical images of God the Deliverer Mother Mourner and Midwife