Feminine Face of God
Keywords:
FeminineAbstract
The gender of God attracts attention and has relevance only in an
anthropological context. We, sexual beings, cannot imagine or
want God to remain asexual. hence the confltct. Prof. Isaac
Arlckappalil skilfully brings to our attention the social, cultural,
and political contexts in which the Sacred Scriptures were written
and the necessity of proper exegetical study to understand and
appreciate meanings they aspire to convey. Moreover, along with
the change in milieu the Sacred Scriptures demand reconstruction
and retelling so that the letters may not asphyxiate and exterminate
the spirit that they enclose and try to communicate. He also
proposes the posstbtllty of advancing a feminine pneumatology
which hitherto remains untapped especially in the Western
theological Circle.
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