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We express the mystery of God with diverse metaphors, but mostly in Adult terms. In this experimental theological adventure, Graham Adams imagines what might flow from a more thorough 'be-child-ing' of God. Aware that the Child can be idealized, he selects particular characteristics of childness in order to disrupt God's omnipresence, omnipotence and omniscience.
The smallness of the Child re-envisages divine location in sites of smallness, like an open palm receiving the experiences of the overlooked. The weakness of the Child reimagines divine agency as chaos-event, subverting prevailing patterns of power and evoking relationships of mutuality. And the curiosity of the Child reconceives divine encounter as horizon-seeker, imaginatively and empathetically pursuing the unknown.
These possibilities are brought into dialogue both with other theologies (Black, disabled and queer) and with pastoral loss, economic/ecological injustice, and theological education. Through these conversations, God the Child emerges not only as a new model for God, but intrinsic to God's new social reality which is close at hand.
Blogpost: What if God is a child? Graham Adams writes on the SCM Press blog
Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Foreword by Karen O'Donnell xi
First Steps: Introducing God the Child 1
Part 1 Wherever God is, God is Small 19
1 God the Open Palm 21
2 Grace as Solidarity 38
3 The Blackness of the Hand 62
Part 2 However God Acts, God is Weak 83
4 God the Chaos-event 86
5 Justice as Playfulness 101
6 The Dis/ability of the Agency 121
Part 3 Whatever God Knows, God is Curious 141
7 God the Horizon-seeker 143
8 Faith as Imagination 155
9 The Queerness of the Quest 174
Conclusions: Following the Child 188
Index of Bible References 197
Index of Names and Subjects 199
