Big-Enough God

by Sara Maitland

Book Overview

This work sets out to challenge those who want a more imaginative, bigger spirituality, freed from the straightjackets of much contemporary doctrine and ecclesiology. It is grounded on the conviction... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1573225746
• ISBN13: 9781573225748
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

The best book of theology I've read in years.

This is one of the best books of theology I have read in a very long time. As a novelist, Sara Maitland is able to write with great flair and insight. Yet she is also well-versed in science and mathematics. This is a marvellous combination of abilities for any theologian to have. Maitland explores the implications of contemporary science and mathematics for our understanding of God and shows how our traditional picture of the divine is too small to cope with the evidence. With a novelist's insight into the chaotic and unpredictable nature of human life, she draws a tantalizing picture of a God big enough to fit the facts of the universe as we know them. The book is subtitled "a feminist's search for a joyful theology" and this might deter some readers who are wary of the general run of 'feminist' theology. However, a careful reading of that sub-title will reveal an important point is being made: the is not "feminist theology" but the theology of a person who happens to consider herself a feminist. Though she might not claim the title, Maitland's work is feminist theology at its best--never doctrinaire, always critical of ideology, the product of a woman who draws together extraordinary gifts and abilities and applies them to the big questions about God. Readers might also enjoy her novel "Ancestral Truths" in which many of the insights canvassed in "A Big-Enough God" are given play in the setting of a family struggling with its various demons.