seeking the divine on a feminist path
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Reid, Lucy
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- WER 8 2006
- Thesaurus
- christendom, spiritualiteit, hekserij, feminisme
- Description
- This is a chronicle of Reid’s journey and an excursion through the writings of others whose thought has been pivotal for her. She describes research into the use of feminine imagery for God in the Bible and Christian history. Discovering the feminine face of God was an affirming and exciting process, and it opened new paths of imagery and understanding that linked women’s lives to the Divine and named women’s reality as holy. She combines the Wisdom of the Goddess with that of the God she had known, reaching toward a more whole image of the Divine. Reid describes her loss of faith in a distant and transcendent God. She describes her departure from traditional Christianity, her engagements with other religious traditions, and her reframing of theology into a life-sustaining, earth-honoring, and peace-making endeavor.