Christians have good reasons to resist gender-neutral alternatives. Underlying this view is a belief that terms like father and mother are mere human characterizations of God, shaped by specific ...

Theologian N T Wright recently emphasized that while God transcends gender, using traditional male pronouns like Father ...

Fathers and fathering are remote to my daily life now. The idea of God as Father is remote to my life too. Jesus taught me to call God Father. God as Father is woven into Christian theology and ...

Adam Christopher Sheafe, 51, confessed to crucifying William Schonemann, 76, and placing a crown of thorns on his head ...

Michelangelo’s iconic God the Father image, painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, draws on the Hebrew Bible’s patriarchal God tradition. In Deuteronomy 32:6 Moses explicitly refers to God as ...

In the first centuries of Christian life, bishops wrestled with the Greek in this puzzle – whether God the Father and Jesus ...

Christians, however, believe in a triune God: God the father, God the son (Jesus Christ) and the Holy Spirit. And many evangelicals will say that means Muslims and Jews do not worship the same god ...

Gary Christian stood in an East Tennessee church pulpit on a sunny August Sunday, speaking about pain and death and faith and God. It’s not a place — or a point — where the father of murder ...

Many Christian communities refer to God as “Father.” This takes root in the Gospels, where Jesus teaches his followers to pray “ Our Father ,” which Christians continue to say today.

GCSE; Eduqas; The nature of God and Jesus in Christianity The Trinity. Christians believe in the Trinity - one God, all-loving and all-powerful, in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

The published worship resources of mainline churches diminish the use of father, include hymns that celebrate a wide variety of metaphors for God, encourage the praying of the psalms in which are many ...

Thus, these unmistakably feminine images of Scripture help reclaim a God who is neither male nor female—God does not have a body, after all—and whose likeness is imaged in both male and female ...