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Prayers To She Who Is
Poet William Cleary turns the third-person theological writing of Elizabeth Johnson's classic into second-person prayers that everyone can say. With beautiful drawings by Morningstar, here is an "open it anywhere" prayerbook to help us speak--and listen to--the God who cares as passionately about us as a mother for her children in pain.
160 pages, Paperback
First published October 25, 1995
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July 20, 2024
2.75
I really wanted to like this book especially since God as Divine Feminine is so important to my faith. The book "The Flowering of the Soul" which was a collection of prayers written by women was so important to expanding my understanding of who God was.
But this book is just... clunky. You can tell the prayers want to be beautiful but they can come out sounds like a bunch of jargon/words thrown together. And the prayers are very repetitive.
Perhaps this book would have been more ground breaking when published nearly 20 years ago but there are more prayers and poems written to the Female Divine now that don't suffer from repetitiveness and clunkiness.
I really wanted to like this book especially since God as Divine Feminine is so important to my faith. The book "The Flowering of the Soul" which was a collection of prayers written by women was so important to expanding my understanding of who God was.
But this book is just... clunky. You can tell the prayers want to be beautiful but they can come out sounds like a bunch of jargon/words thrown together. And the prayers are very repetitive.
Perhaps this book would have been more ground breaking when published nearly 20 years ago but there are more prayers and poems written to the Female Divine now that don't suffer from repetitiveness and clunkiness.
October 21, 2013
Took this out of the Interfaith Library today and leafed through it. It's based on the work and words of Sr. Dr. Elizabeth Johnson, whose book She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse I read for my trinity course a few years ago.
The prayers tend towards the verbose and clunky to my ear, a bit reminiscent of the Blue Mountain Arts card style of poetry. But there are some beautiful images, and a broad array of themes strongly clustered around care for the poor, the oppressed, and the earth.
I did particularly like the versicle at the end of each prayer, which in line one, addressed God by a name from the prayer followed by three descriptive gerunds ending in freeing, and line two was always In you we live and move and have our being.
The line-drawing illustrations are a worthy complement to the prayers. I particularly liked the image of ruach, She-who-is blowing creation into being, and the image of God as a woman pouring out a jar of water onto the soil to sustain the growing grain.
The prayers tend towards the verbose and clunky to my ear, a bit reminiscent of the Blue Mountain Arts card style of poetry. But there are some beautiful images, and a broad array of themes strongly clustered around care for the poor, the oppressed, and the earth.
I did particularly like the versicle at the end of each prayer, which in line one, addressed God by a name from the prayer followed by three descriptive gerunds ending in freeing, and line two was always In you we live and move and have our being.
The line-drawing illustrations are a worthy complement to the prayers. I particularly liked the image of ruach, She-who-is blowing creation into being, and the image of God as a woman pouring out a jar of water onto the soil to sustain the growing grain.
February 18, 2013
God as a Mama...comforting thought.
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