The Motherhood of God
Why was the Motherhood of God hidden from me?
One of my favorite resources near my desk is the third edition of Discovering Biblical Equality. It is not a “sit down and read through” type of book but rather a resource of wonderful chapters from various authors across the scholarly perspective.
Last year, I taught an online course through the Center for Dignity on God and the world of the Old Testament. This course hoped to discern the throughline of God’s self-disclosure in the Hebrew Bible while paying particular attention to some of the uncommon imagery God uses for God’s self.
In the book mentioned above, a chapter is dedicated to God as Mother and Spiritual Formation (Chapter 19). And I’d like to draw a few reflections from this chapter and my journey.
I did not begin to attend church regularly until I was a sophomore in high school. In some ways, this is a good thing, as most of my faith perspective was formed while in college and seminary. There was less to undo. But not totally.
