Sentences with phrase «discovering images of god»

«Care involves structured and intentional organization in response to specific educational, relational, and existential needs,» says Larry Kent Graham (Discovering Images of God: Narratives of Care Among Lesbians and Gays).

For a Christian, the natural world provides a medium to express and even discover the image of God.

Not exact matches

What we ought to be able to discover in this world picture, once the incredible science is gone, is a conception of the universe in which, under what are for us weird and frequently utterly impossible images, the whole creation is seen as dependent upon a loving and active God who is its ultimate meaning and its ground of being.

For purposes of brevity, let us simply take up the problem of medieval painting and sculpture, and ask if God - images here play a significant role, and, more particularly, ask if we can here discover a significant relation between God - images and Christ - images, a relation reflecting a uniquely Christian apprehension of the evolutionary movement and transformation of the divine process.

It would be odd if a creature such as man and woman, made in the image of God to be creative and inventive, and made to be provident over our own earthly good, were unable to discover the natural laws of ordered liberty and fruitful creativity.

And when we look at Jesus, and recognize the truth... that He is the image of the invisible God (Col 1:15) and the exact representation of God (Heb 1:3), we will discover that we start to become more Christlike as well.

Recognizing that their critique has rendered images of God no longer absolute, feminists have discovered that the religious power structure is reluctant to admit that patriarchal symbols for God are culturally influenced (as if God really were male) or contingent (as if use of a feminine symbol to point to a nonrepresentable God is more inadequate or idolatrous than use of a male symbol) To read Mary Daly or Naomi Goldenberg, to consider Rosemary Ruether's demasculinizing of the Gospel stories or to ponder the renewed attention to «goddess» theology and the development of a lesbian theology is to see the basic language of theological discourse upset and transformed.

Pictures painted on the walls of my womb began to emerge» (The Mother's Songs: Images of God the Mother [Paulist Press, 1986], p. 67) She discovered the Great Mother in the awesome beauty of the desert, brooding over a world still in the process of being born.

For most of us women and men who have grown up in a world where men are the image makers and decision maker and where even God is male, it comes as a surprise to discover that, offstage, the figure of a woman looms large.