Not Only a Father

The God of the Bible is not a member of any class of comparable beings. Beyond and other than all gods and every creature, God is not gendered. However, Christian language for God and the pictures we use to help us talk about God are predominantly male. Among the pictures one of the most often used and appreciated is 'father'. Yet God (unlike many of the gods of the ancient world) is not only a father. The Bible and the early Christian theologians used motherly as well as fatherly language and pictures to speak of God. In this way at least their image of God was richer and deeper than ours! This book encourages readers to appropriate this wider range of pictures of what God is like, and to learn again to relate to a God who is beyond all imagining and closer than life itself. This God is not only a father!

Author: Tim Bulkeley
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 11/22/2011
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.34d
ISBN: 9781468091373

About the Author
Dr Tim Bulkeley is Lecturer in Old Testament at Carey Baptist College in Auckland New Zealand.

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