Divinity: Where Do We Find the Holy? (03/08)
What do we mean when we say “God”? Is divinity distant and judgmental or intimate and relational? Is the Holy confined to doctrine, or alive in breath, soil, protest, and possibility?
What do we mean when we say “God”? Is divinity distant and judgmental or intimate and relational? Is the Holy confined to doctrine, or alive in breath, soil, protest, and possibility?
Liberating our theology of divinity means asking: Who told us what the Divine looks like? Why has the Holy so often been imaged as male, controlling, imperial? Womanist theologian Delores Williams challenged atonement theologies that glorify suffering. Ada María Isasi-Díaz reminded us that the Divine is found in lo cotidiano. The everyday struggles and joys of marginalized communities.
If divinity is love, as Julian of Norwich proclaimed “All shall be well” then how does that reshape how we treat one another? If the sacred lives in every body, how does that challenge sexism, racism, transphobia?
Perhaps liberating divinity means discovering that the Holy is not a monarch in the sky, but a movement among us, calling us toward beloved community. What if the Divine is less about control and more about connection?
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