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Not only a father, gender and the Bible, Dr Tim Bulkeley | Sacraparental.com

Not Only A Father #5: Knowing the Unknowable [Guest]

Many thanks to Dr Tim Bulkeley who today wraps up his series based on his book,Ā Not Only A Father, looking at gendered language for God. For more on Tim’s background, seeĀ the first post. Theology is only real when we live it. So chapter 6 of Not Only a Father tries to suggest ways we can […]

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Not Only A Father #3: But Jesus Named God ‘Our Father’! [Guest]

Welcome back to our guest poster Dr Tim Bulkeley, and welcome, readers,Ā to perhapsĀ the most controversial bit of this series (see the debate on today’s subject in the comments on the previous post)! I’ve argued that we need to talk about God as motherly if we are to speak in pictures about God at all, and […]

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Not only a father, gender and the Bible, Dr Tim Bulkeley | Sacraparental.com

Not Only a Father #2: God as Mother in the Bible

A warm welcome back to Dr Tim Bulkeley who is posting this series based on his book, Not Only A Father, looking at gendered language for God. For more on Tim’s background, see the first post. In the previous post I started with an assumption: …[t]he One True God is beyond human understanding. God is […]

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