A Gender Neutral God/ess: Be Inclusive but MAKE NO IMAGES was the Religious Change
Book Details
Author(s)
J. J. McKenzie
Publisher
J. J. Graphics
ISBN / ASIN
B00KTOA9QC
ISBN-13
978B00KTOA9Q3
Sales Rank
#2,038,912
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
Description
2012 QED Seal Recipient (Quality, Excellence, Design)
2013 Publishing Innovation Awards: Finalist, Non-Fiction
2013 IndieReader Discovery Awards: Winner of the Religion category
One of the main purposes of this eBook is to show that the Bible is a document written by many different ancient peoples. It explains how, when, and why various theological ideas arose - and how those ideas have been altered by later translation decisions. The focus of the eBook is on the centuries long mainstream belief of Hebrew and Christian worshippers that their "God" is masculine. That was not the intent of many early biblical writers. Instead, an imageless, inclusive She/He Deity was postulated.
Several chapters discuss the literary devices early religious writers used to describe a gender inclusive Deity. Some of those devices are plurals, gendered words, mother/father language, the use of the word "double", and poetic parallelism. Early Goddess religions are described and their images shown by 80 colored images. Finally, how, the biblical writer incorporated early Goddess concepts into the Hebrew religion without using forbidden "graven images" is explained.
Due to the amount of research involved in these ideas the ebook contains numerous footnotes, a list of illustrations, and a bibliography. This is an important eBook for people who question the strong influence religion still has in today's world.
