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by Sallie McFague
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Availability:In StockContributor:Sallie McFaguePublish date:1987-08-01Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Augsburg Fortress PublishingISBN-13:9780800620516ISBN-10:800620518UPC:9780800620516Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:Christian Theology, TheologySize:8.50 x 5.49 x 0.74 inchesWeight:0.7297Product ID:SC6FT5XWNW
In this award-winning text, theologian Sallie McFague challenges Christians' usual speech about God as a kind of monarch. She probes instead three other possible metaphors for God-as mother, lover, and friend.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Augsburg Fortress PublishingISBN-13:9780800620516ISBN-10:800620518UPC:9780800620516Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:Christian Theology, TheologySize:8.50 x 5.49 x 0.74 inchesWeight:0.7297Product ID:SC6FT5XWNW
McFague, Sallie: -

Sallie McFaguewas the Carpenter Professor of Theology at VanderbiltDivinity School, where she taught for thirty years. She is now Distinguished Theologian in Residence at the Vancouver School of Theology in Vancouver, British Columbia. Among her many influential works, all from Fortress Press, are:

Life Abundant: Rethinking Theology and Economy for a Planet in Peril (2000)

Super, Natural Christians: How We Should Love Nature (1997)

The Body of God: An Ecological Theology (1993)

Models of God: Theology for an Ecological, Nuclear Age (1987), which received the American Academy of Religion's Award for Excellence

Metaphorical Theology: Models of God in Religious Language (1982)

Sallie McFague is a prominent figure among the growing number of theologians who have been attempting to rethink the Christian understanding of God's and humanity's place in the physical world.

-Chronicle of Higher Education

The power of McFague's work is in its ability to speak to the American Protestant mainstream, challenging Christians with models of God that reflect both ecological sensitivity and concern for justice.

-Sharon Welch, Harvard Divinity School

Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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