OMG: Growing Our God Images

OMG: Growing Our God Images
ISBN-10
1532645317
ISBN-13
9781532645310
Series
OMG
Category
Religion
Pages
180
Language
English
Published
2018-12-18
Publisher
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Author
Mary Ellen Ashcroft

Description

The plot thickens—in novels and our lives—forcing us from the fairy tale into a bewildering, even heartbreaking narrative. We look at the god we’re holding, and find it too fragile, too brittle to meet reality. Cling tighter? Move on godless? In fact, rejecting a god image (or as C. S. Lewis puts it, allowing God to smash our limited god) opens space for deeper faith in the midst of painful life experience. In OMG, Mary Ellen Ashcroft invites readers to look over her shoulder as she traces her god growth, beginning with a capricious childhood god. The loving savior who embraced her when she was eighteen, followed her into strict fundamentalism, while the god she met in an Anglican seminary shocked her by caring more about poverty than a seven-day creation, but then called her to a South Africa tipping toward revolution. An interweaving of narrative theology and creative nonfiction, OMG invites readers to grow into deeper faith, retelling their stories in the light of the biblical one, dropping inadequate gods to grasp a mysterious, awesome one.

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