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| Illustrations | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Background: Speech About God at the Intersection of Mighty Concerns | |
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| Introduction: To Speak Rightly of God | |
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| A Crucial Question | |
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| Context: Mystery Mediated in History | |
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| Purpose: Connecting Feminist and Classical Wisdom | |
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| Plan | |
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| Scotosis vs. the Glory of God | |
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| Feminist Theology and Critical Discourse About God | |
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| The Lens of Womens Flourishing | |
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| Speech about God at the Intersection of Mighty Concerns | |
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| Feminist Theology | |
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| Critique of Speech about God | |
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| Basic Linguistic Options: God, Women, Equivalence | |
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| Why the Word God? | |
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| Why Female Symbols of God? | |
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| Why Not Feminine Traits or Dimensions of God? | |
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| Equivalent Images of God Male and Female | |
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| Options | |
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| Foreground: Resources for Emancipatory Speech About God | |
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| Women's Interpreted Experience | |
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| The Dynamism of the Conversion Experience | |
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| Experience of Self Experience of God | |
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| Moral Values | |
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| Image of God, Image of Christ | |
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| Scripture and Its Trajectories | |
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| A Hermeneutic of Revelation | |
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| Spirit/Shekinah | |
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| Wisdom/Sophia | |
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| Mother | |
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| Classical Theology | |
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| Divine Incomprehensibility | |
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| Analogy | |
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| Many Names | |
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| Speaking About God from the World's History | |
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| Spirit-Sophia | |
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| Divinity Drawing Near and Passing By | |
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| Forgetting the Spirit | |
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| The Human Analogue | |
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| Spirit-Sophia in Action | |
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| Speaking about Spirit | |
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| Speaking about God | |
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| Jesus-Sophia | |
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| Wisdom Made Flesh | |
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| Distorting the Christ | |
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| The Human Analogue | |
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| Jesus-Sophia in Action | |
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| Speaking about Christ | |
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| Speaking about God | |
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| Mother-Sophia | |
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| Unoriginate Origin | |
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| Eclipsing the Mother | |
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| The Human Analogue | |
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| Mother-Sophia in Action | |
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| Speaking about God | |
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| Dense Symbols and Their Dark Light | |
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| Triune God: Mystery of Relation | |
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| Tradition and Its Discontents | |
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| Freeing the Symbol from Literalness | |
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| Directing the Symbol toward Meaning | |
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| Female Metaphors | |
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| The Symbol Gives Rise to Thought | |
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| Speaking about the Triune God | |
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| One Living God: She Who Is | |
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| "No Real Relation" and Womens Sensibility | |
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| Divine Nature: A Communion | |
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| Bespeaking God's Solidarity with the World | |
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| Female Metaphors | |
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| Divine Being, Sheer Liveliness | |
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| Speaking About the Living God: SHE WHO IS | |
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| To Practical and Critical Effect | |
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| Suffering God: Compassion Poured Out | |
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| The Apathic, Omnipotent God and "His" Critics | |
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| Female Metaphors | |
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| Divine Suffering | |
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| Divine Power | |
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| Speaking about the Suffering God | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index of Authors | |
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| Index of Subjects | |