God the Child: Small, Weak and Curious Subversions

We express the mystery of God with diverse metaphors, but mostly in Adult terms. In this experimental theological adventure, Graham Adams imagines what might flow from a more thorough ‘be—child—ing’ of God. Aware that the Child can be idealized, he selects particular characteristics of childness in order to disrupt God’s omnipresence, omnipotence and omniscience.

The smallness of the Child re—envisages divine location in sites of smallness, like an open palm receiving the experiences of t...