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

Name: Mourner, Mother, Midwife Reimagining God's Delivering Presence in the Old Testament
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ISBN: 9780664238360

ISBN-10: 066423836X

ISBN-13: 9780664238360

Edition: 2012

Authors: L. Juliana M. Claassens

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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,…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication date: 11/28/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 140
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

L. Juliana M. Claassens is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. She previously taught in the United States at Wesley Theological Seminary and Baptist Theological Seminary. She is the author of The God Who Provides: Biblical Images of Divine Nourishment.



Acknowledgments



Liberating God-Language?


The Liberator-Warrior God-for-Us?


Woman Warrior and die Liberator-Warrior God


Reimagining God as Deliverer


Recognizing Complexity


Journeying from Tears to New Life



God as Mourner


Mourning Women


Terror All Around


And Yet


Calling the Keeners


Divine Wailing Woman


Looking at the World through Tears



God as Mother


Mothers


Deutero-Isaiah as Survival Literature


Disjunctive Metaphors


Facing the Empire


Rhetorical Significance of the Female Imagery for the Divine in Deutero-Isaiah


A Turn to Love



God as Midwife


Midwives


Praying from die Depths of the Deep


Rupturing God-Language


Memories of Midwives


A New Kind of Speech: God as Midwife in Psalm 22


Redeeming Memories: God as Midwife in Psalm 71


Becoming Midwives



God's Delivering Presence


Conjuring Up a New World


Toward a Theology of Presence


Education as Transformation


Transforming Worship


Notes


Bibliography


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