Article: The God Who Provides: Biblical Images of Divine Nourishment.(Book Review)

Article: God as metaphor
The Press;  August 12, 2008 ;     343 words ... ... I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but ... Dawkins after him, Einstein used "God'' as a metaphor for nature. A. F. Jenks follows ... example. Children still ask: if God made us, who made God? They show ...

Article: Moving beyond symbol and myth; understanding the kingship of ...
Reference & Research Book News;  August 1, 2009 ;     567 words ... ... order to more fully understand the "God is king" metaphor. She takes issue with Norman Perrin ... symbol, arguing instead that the "God is king" metaphor serves as a relational metaphor referring to "God as covenantal sovereign of Israel ...

Article: Paul, his Roman audience, and the adopted people of God; ...
Reference & Research Book News;  February 1, 2009 ;     509 words ... ... the adopted people of God; understanding the Pauline metaphor of adoption in Romans ... explores Paul's metaphor of adoption, which ... relationship between God and believers that ... looking at thinking about metaphor, then examines adoption ...

Article: Mixing Metaphors: God as Mother and Father in ...
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... argues that every metaphor must be understood ... parental imagery for God, one must look ... carefully at the other metaphors intertwined around ... associated with a metaphor) of parenthood ... examines specific metaphors used by Deutero-Isaiah for God as mother and ...

Article: Mixing Metaphors: God as Mother and Father in ...
Hebrew Studies Journal;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... the study of metaphors in the Hebrew ... immense variety of metaphors, many studies ... one particular metaphor (e.g., God as king) in ... s focus on metaphor coherence and ... Dille identifies metaphors for which God is a redeemer ...

Article: God and the Creative Imagination: Metaphor, Symbol ...
Interpretation;  April 1, 2002 ;     554 words ...God and the Creative Imagination: Metaphor, Symbol and Myth In Religion and ... and creative chapters devoted to metaphor, symbol, and myth. Part IV concludes ... repeats the term "realism" because metaphor, symbol, and myth are firmly grounded ...

Article: The Internet as a Metaphor for God?
Cross Currents;  March 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... People see the Net as a new metaphor for God." The reason for this ... good is the Internet as a metaphor for God? As a committed Christian ... image and the likeness of God." In this postindustrial ... traditional symbols and metaphors