God: An Ecofeminist Approach To The Greatest of Mysteries
Ivone Gabara
Longing For Running Water: Ecofeminism & Liberation
Chapter 3
God: An Ecofeminist approach to the Greatest of Mysteries
- Relatedness as a Language and an Experience of the Divine
- Issues Raised about Ecofeminist Discourse on God
- God: Models and Mystery
- God: My Hope
Understanding God as
"Ground of Our Being"
"Relatedness"
"Sacred Body"
"The model of the Universe as God's Body ... everyone and everything becomes potentially a sacrament of God ..."
"The model of the Universe as God's Body ... everyone and everything becomes potentially a sacrament of God ..."
Issues Raised about Ecofeminist Discourse of God
- Can't accept the idea God is not a person.
- Can't pray to an energy flow.
- Must not fall into Pantheism.
- Ecofeminist fails to stress God committed to poor.
- What do we do with biblical images of God?
God: Models and Mystery
God: My Hope
"... I continue to cry out for the Greatest of Mysteries.
dethrones humanity ... and relocates us...
"This is one of the tasks ecofeminism has set for itself."
Ecofeminist God Discourse Issues
- idea that God is not a person.
- can't pray to an energy flow
- pantheism ... must not fall into
- The poor need concrete images of God
- fails to stress a God committed to poor.
- What do we do with biblical images of God?