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Literature and the scandal of holiness

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I Love Your Book, God Is Mother

I love thet especially higlighting her in her female role too. Is very relational. And pulling out that mediaeval imagery of god that you said is less common now. But god is mother. God is having this relational motherly aspect towards us, which was very present in the mediaeval imagery. Ih i sayng, how both god in the old testament and the jesus in the new testament calls himself a mother who wants to gather her children am beneath her, like a mother hen. That image has been relegated kind of to the side lines in most christian churches in the twentieth centurywell, that's really cool. Another of the chapters i really enjoyed was the one

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