
#93 Gendered language and God as ‘father‘
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Is This a Hot Potato or a New Thing?
This is a hot potato if ever there was one, tom so how do you want to handle it? Though it's been around quite a while. I mean, i first ran into this o 30 or more years ago, em er and round. Professors in seminaries in north america at least, were not infrequently requiring that students should not use he, him for god. So his this is hardly, hardly a new thing. A obviously, this comes out of a deep seated cultural revulsion gainst the arrogance and often violence of a male dominated world. There are passages in scripture where god is portrayed with female imagery. In isaiah, when and god says that,
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