It's definitely best to read Sallie McFague's many great books but here is an article >

http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/WeirdWildWeb...909_mcfague.htm

which summarizes some of her thinking. Here's another one >

http://theologytoday.ptsem.edu/jan1984/v40-4-bookreview2.htm

One of her best books, LIFE ABUNDANT, was written after these articles were published.

What I found most intriguing and helpful in her book, METAPHORICAL THEOLOGY, is her assertion, well documented and argued, that all of our language is metaphorical: Religious language, theological language, political language, scientific language, etc.

She offers new models for theological thinking which move us beyond patriarchal and hierarchical metaphors. Example: God as Friend rather than Father.

Wow!

love, john + http://www.abundancetrek.com & http://www.abundancetrek.com/blog + We are intimately, intricately and infinitely connected by a matrix of unconditional, unlimited and uniting love which is miraculous, mysterious and marvellous.