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God, Mom!
In Fritz Allhoff & Sheila Lintott (eds.), Motherhood ‐ Philosophy for Everyone. Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 202–212 (2010-09-24)
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This chapter contains sections titled: “God is a woman” From Mother Goddesses to Classical Theism It's Like This “Defective and misbegotten” “The true mother of life and all things” Mothers Made in the Image of God Notes.Author's Profile
God, Mom! ‐ the blessings of breasts and womb suffering, a central theme in Job ‐ being all about motherhood “God is a woman” ‐ Job doesn't curse God as Satan predicted he would God's speech, judged by commentators ‐ more of an end run around Job's complaints than a satisfactory response to them Shadday originating within a paradigm of divine‐human relations ‐ highlighting God's role as guarantor of fertility from mother goddesses to classical theism ‐ “God is a woman,”or more precisely, a mother if God is perfect, God is also immutable or unchanging ‐ change in a perfect being, could only be for the worse seeing God as epitome of maternal care ‐ surpassing the very best of mortal mothers in nurturance “Defective and misbegotten” ‐ Thomas Aquinas's offensive theory, that women were “misbegotten” males “The true mother of life and all things” ‐ conception of God as Mother, fostering feelings of gratitude and arousing a desire to help others
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