Ebook {Epub PDF} The Body of God by Sallie McFague

 · In her book The Body of God, McFague dedicates her efforts to exploring the thought experiment of the body as a model for an ecological theology. 12 She is quick to point out that this model is not based on the human body, lest it inadvertently reinforce the patriarchal assumption that the head has a privileged position over the rest of the body, which would reinstate yet another problematic Author: Leah D. Schade. Sallie McFague (born ) is an American feminist Christian theologian, who has written other books such as Super, Natural Christians, The Body of God: An Ecological Theology, bltadwin.ru by: I have been reading a book that was published ten years ago, entitled, The Body of God: an Ecological Theology, by Sallie McFague. Well known for her work on metaphors, in this book she offers a lens for perceiving God that might be useful for addressing the ecological crisis from a religious perspective.

spirituality must challenge false social constructions. Investigating McFague's model of the world as God's body, Chapter Two then illustrates how to live by a spirituality that loves God while caring deeply for the needs of the world. In Chapters Three and Four I. Looking for books by Sallie McFague? See all books authored by Sallie McFague, including Models of God: Theology for an Ecological, Nuclear Age, and The Body of God: An Ecological Theology, and more on bltadwin.ru Buy a cheap copy of The Body of God: An Ecological Theology book by Sallie McFague. In Models of God, now in a second impression, Sallie McFague dealt principally with immanental models, God as mother, lover and friend of the world. Her choice was Free shipping over $

Shelves: christian-eco-ethics, ecotheology. McFague describes a panentheistic vision of God - the whole universe as God's body empowered by the divine spirit. McFague develops such an alternative 'organic model' in response to the ecological crisis and what she believes as a 'common story of creation'. In the process she rejects classical notions of the 'church as the body of God' citing its' anthropocentric exclusivity as a reason and several models of who God is, namely deism, dialogic. I have been reading a book that was published ten years ago, entitled, The Body of God: an Ecological Theology, by Sallie McFague. Well known for her work on metaphors, in this book she offers a lens for perceiving God that might be useful for addressing the ecological crisis from a religious perspective. I think she also offers us a way to re-claim god-talk that will help us worship. She wrote in the Introduction to this book, "The present essay attempts to look at everything through one lens, the model of the universe or world as God's body (a model) that is neglected, essential, illuminating, and helpful both to Christian doctrinal reformulation and to planetary well-being.".