Article: (S)He's not your forefather's GOD From books to TV, the Lord is hot, but not all that almighty

Article: Clones of God: Genesis 1:26-28 and the Image of ...
Interpretation;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... limited way "clones of God," who, to those who have eyes to see, display God's likeness? Of course ... only angels or demi-gods, not only Pharaoh and ... possesses the gift of God's image. New Age religion ... the Priestly writer in Genesis would have us believe ...

Article: Animals and the love of God.(Genesis seems to make ...
The Christian Century;  June 21, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... we often overlook what God then says to the man ... proclaimed to be pleasing to God, but neither animals ... eat. The beginning of Genesis depicts a harmonious ... worried that the Babylonian gods might be superior to their God, this narrative boldly ...

Article: The Character of God in the Book of Genesis
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly;  April 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... this respect, God is most clearly developed in Genesis. "God is noted by both narrator and characters not for ... back for reassessment, in order to construct the God of Genesis as a "God in the process of becoming" (p. 20). Having ...

Article: The Character of God in the Book of Genesis: A ...
Interpretation;  April 1, 2003 ;     551 words ... ... from direct to indirect characterizations of God within Genesis. By the end of Genesis, God is present only in speeches by Joseph and a ... However, readers wondering how portrayals of God in Genesis might have functioned within early Judaism ...

Article: UNTAMABLE TEXT OF AN UNTAMABLE GOD Genesis and ...
Interpretation;  October 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... surprising encounter with the untamable God. Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled ... but Israel, for you have striven with God and with humans, and have prevailed ... place Peniel, saying, "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved ...

Article: Moyers' `Genesis': What was God thinking?
The Boston Globe;  October 16, 1996 ;     677 words ... ... relationship to God. The themes in "Genesis" are very much ... than comforts. "Genesis," like the biblical ... motivation and a God who does not always ... become wicked? Did God create a mistake ... participant in "Genesis" suggests? Some ...

Article: Genes, Genesis and God: Values and Their Origins in ...
The Christian Century;  January 19, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Genes, Genesis and God: Values and Their Origins ... attempting to combine the idea of God's providential design with ... the "brooding Spirit of God" in the world, and believes ... humans there appears the genesis of ideas; encultured thereafter ...