He's stopped using female pronouns for the Divine.
Well, that sucks. D: I've only read two Fr Greeley books (The Bishop and the West Wing, and The Bishop and the Beggar Girl of St Germain), but I liked that too. Personally, I find that if I use male pronouns for the Divine, it flips all the "you do not belong" switches, and, worse, the "God is a psychopath who sets his people up for petty revenge games all through both Testaments by deliberately hardening their hearts so it's their fault when they do what he planned for them to do, and then he gets to punish them" switches.
I'm very new to this using a Christian framework at all (I'm not officially a Christian, I'm just edging nearer) and it's a very delicate balance.
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Date: 2011-10-23 07:01 am (UTC)Well, that sucks. D: I've only read two Fr Greeley books (The Bishop and the West Wing, and The Bishop and the Beggar Girl of St Germain), but I liked that too. Personally, I find that if I use male pronouns for the Divine, it flips all the "you do not belong" switches, and, worse, the "God is a psychopath who sets his people up for petty revenge games all through both Testaments by deliberately hardening their hearts so it's their fault when they do what he planned for them to do, and then he gets to punish them" switches.
I'm very new to this using a Christian framework at all (I'm not officially a Christian, I'm just edging nearer) and it's a very delicate balance.