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God the What?: What Our Metaphors for God Reveal about Our Beliefs in God de Carolyn Jane Bohler

God the What?: What Our Metaphors for God Reveal about Our Beliefs in God

Autor Carolyn Jane Bohler
en Hardback – 15 oct 2008
Be inspired to consider a wide range of images of God and refine how you imagine God works in the world-or not. Tapping into your God-given ability to re-imagine God will expand your understanding and experience of your own beliefs and of the Divine.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781683360896
ISBN-10: 1683360893
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Turner

Notă biografică

Carolyn Jane Bohler was the Emma Sanborn Toussant Professor of Pastoral Theology and Counseling at United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio, for twenty-one years. She has served three different United Methodist churches in Southern California-in San Diego, Tustin and Redlands. She was also campus chaplain at Simpson College in Iowa and hospital chaplain intern in downtown Los Angeles and San Francisco. She is the author of six books, includingOpening to God: Guided Imagery Meditation on Scripture(published under the name Stahl) and a children's book, God Is Like a Mother Hen and Much, Much More. She is now enjoying retirement back in Dayton, where she is embracing a new role as grandmother.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. God the What?
A Lively, Multidimensional Faith
What Makes a Good Metaphor?
Bringing New Meaning to Old Metaphors
Metaphor Wondering
Imagining New Metaphors

2 God Can Do What? God's Power
A Shaky Search to Understand God's Power
An Attitude of Inquiry
A Hundred Ways of Wondering
Powerful Options
Transforming Power

3 God Wants What? God's Will
God the Designer of All Events: Is What Is, Meant to Be?
God the Proposer: Dare We Say No to a Proposal?
God the Improviser: How Do We Creatively Respond to God's Nod?
God the Graffiti Artist: How Do We Get Clues to What God Wants?

4 God Interacts How? Our Relationship with God
Twin Spiritual Needs
Implications for Human Relationships
A Closer Look at One Metaphor
Conclusion: Metaphors Matter

Epilogue: Personal Metaphor Wondering
Reflective Questions
Discussion Guide for Groups
Notes
Credits
Hebrew, Christian, and Islamic Scriptures Index
Metaphor Index