God the Child: Small, Weak and Curious Subversions

by Graham Adams

Overview

smallness of the Child re-envisages divine location in sites of smallness, like an open palm receiving the experiences of the overlooked. The weakness of the Child reimagines divine agency as chaos-event, subverting prevailing patterns of power and evoking relationships of mutuality. And the curiosity of the Child reconceives divine encounter as horizon-seeker, imaginatively and empathetically pursuing the unknown.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780334065005
Publisher:	Hymns Ancient & Modern
Publication date:	04/30/2024
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.38(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Revd Dr Graham Adams is a Tutor in Mission Studies, World Christianity and Religious Diversity at Luther King Centre for Theology and Ministry

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix Foreword by Karen O'Donnell xi First Steps: Introducing God the Child 1 Part 1 Wherever God is, God is Small 19 1 God the Open Palm 21 2 Grace as Solidarity 38 3 The Blackness of the Hand 62 Part 2 However God Acts, God is Weak 83 4 God the Chaos-event 86 5 Justice as Playfulness 101 6 The Dis/ability of the Agency 121 Part 3 Whatever God Knows, God is Curious 141 7 God the Horizon-seeker 143 8 Faith as Imagination 155 9 The Queerness of the Quest 174 Conclusions: Following the Child 188 Index of Bible References 197 Index of Names and Subjects 199

Editorial Reviews

God the Child is a joyfully unsettling read: richly resource-full, wide-ranging and paradigm-shifting, with Graham Adams’ characteristic combination of careful clarity and poetic playfulness. Exposing and challenging ‘the colonial matrix of adult power’ (including its racist, ableist and heteropatriarchal dimensions), God the Child invites us to reimagine power and agency – divine and human – in ways that are bursting with subversive possibility.

Al Barrett

"Our world contains 1.9 billion children but how might God be represented through them? As Adams puts it, 'in a world of giants, we don’t notice what is small.' In this brilliantly challenging book Adams encourages us toward new ways of imagining God, without all the constructs and sophistication of the adult world, with words like smallness, weakness and curiosity. This new territory opens up huge potential for transformation within our understanding of God."

Carrie Grant