A LIBRARIAN’S ORIENTATION
What this book explores
A Catholic feminist reconstruction of God-language using women’s experience, classical theology, and the symbol of Sophia.
EDITORIAL NOTE
Why it’s in the Library
It demonstrates that changing God-language is not cosmetic: symbols shape imagination, authority, and whose humanity can image the divine. The work offers a substantial reconstruction rather than a simple exchange of pronouns.
Good starting place if…
Christian theology still matters to you, but overwhelmingly masculine language for God has become spiritually, ethically, or intellectually inadequate.
Know before you begin…
Johnson works within Catholic and trinitarian theology while drawing on women's experience, classical sources, and the biblical symbol of Sophia. The book is academically demanding and its proposals have been contested within Catholic institutions.