"I AM YOU": MEDIEVAL LOVE MYSTICISM AS A POST-MODERN THEOLOGY OF RELATION

From: Magistra | Date: July 1, 2002| Author: Anonymous | Copyright information

For many contemporary theologians, the dominant models and metaphors of theology are, in Sally McFague's words, "triumphalist, monarchical, patriarchal."(1)

This is nowhere more evident than in conventional theological views of the love of God, which is depicted as perfectly disinterested, and therefore perfectly dispassionate. In the face of such views, McFague calls for a "remythologising of the relationship between God and the world." In a similar vein, Carter Heyward writes that th...

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