Saturday, July 10, 11.00-13.00 CEST
Platform: Zoom

The biblical witness describes God using many paradigms and archetypes, Father, Mother, Shepherd, Creator. The pronouns used for God, in the First Testament, were not always 'He/Him'.

The Holy Spirit is often described using the pronouns 'Her/She', but in later times the Churches normalised the use of 'He/Him' and this coincided with the long period of misogyny in world history.

We live in a generation that has acknowledged and promotes the equality of the sexes, and in a generation that has acknowledged the possibility that there is more than one gender, yet when we speak of God we use the male pronoun only. Has this 'gendering of God' supported the idea that there is a hierarchy within the gender relationship? In this age where we strive for radical equality is it still useful to speak of God as male?

At this event we will explore what the First Testament's use of 'Father' tells us about the nature of God, what the gender of the man Jesus means for gender discourse and how we might speak again of the Holy Spirit as "She' in our Trinitarian theology.