Lauren F. Winner

Wearing God (eBook, ePUB)

Clothing, Laughter, Fire, and Other Overlooked Ways of Meeting God

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Lauren F. Winnera leading writer at the crossroads of culture and spirituality and author of Still and Girl Meets Godjoins the ranks of luminaries such as Anne Lamott and Barbara Brown Taylor with this exploration of little knownand, so, little usedbiblical metaphors for God, metaphors which can open new doorways for our lives and spiritualities.

There are hundreds of metaphors for God, but the church only uses a few familiar images: creator, judge, savior, father. In Wearing God, Lauren Winner gathers a number of lesser-known tropes, reflecting on how they work biblically and culturally, and reveals how they can deepen our spiritual lives.

Exploring the notion of God as clothing, Winner reflects on how we are clothed with Christ or how God fits us like a garment. She then analyzes how clothing functions culturally to shape our ideals and identify our community, and ruminates on how this new metaphor can function to create new possibilities for our lives. For each biblical metaphorGod as the vine/vintner who animates life; the lactation consultant; and the comedian, showing us our follies, for exampleWinner surveys the historical, literary, and cultural landscapes in order to revive and heal our souls.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062198174
• Artikelnr.: 42494964

Autorenporträt

Lauren F. Winner is an ordained Episcopal priest and the author of numerous books, including Girl Meets God, Real Sex, Mudhouse Sabbath, and Still, which won the Christianity Today Book Award in Spirituality. She teaches at Duke Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Books & Culture, and other periodicals.