ISBN The Kindness of God ( Metaphor Gender and Religious Language ) book English Hardcover 224 pages

Fathers sons brothers kings. Does the predominantly masculine symbolism of the Biblical writings exclude women or overlook the riches of their spiritual life? If Christ is 'the second Adam' and the one on whom all Christian life must be patterned then what about Eve? This book from a leading scholar of religious language and feminism opens up the Bible's imagery for sex gender and kinship and does so by discussing its place in the central teachings of Christian theology: the doctrine of God and spirituality Imago Dei and anthropology Creation Christology and the Cross the Trinity and eschatology.