Document Type : Original Article
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Graduated with a PhD in Religions and Mysticism, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Islamic Azad University, Qom Branch, Qom, Iran.
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Assistant Professor, Department of Eastern Religions, Qom University of Religions and Denominations, Qom, Iran.
10.22111/jrm.2026.53195.1328
Abstract
In his work, Models of God: Theology for the Nuclear Age, McFague exposes the patriarchal model of the relationship between God and the world, and by showing the weaknesses of this model, he suggests other possible cases for contemporary concerns, such as a mother, lover, and friend God, to describe our relationship with God and a model of creation as the body of God, emphasizing our understanding of and our relationship with creation. For in the world as the body of God, God is both transcendent in creation and fundamentally effective in creation. McFague’s main proposal is to use the “body” model as a way to interpret the whole of creation, where the body refers to all forms of life in the world, and his proposal is that the world and everything in it is the body of God. In the metaphor of the world as the body of God, he argues that God acts in an internal and compassionate way, not an external and intermittent one. God is not a being who periodically intervenes in history and nature for benevolent purposes (as in the monarchical, king-supreme-kingdom model), but rather is a continuous observer of the world. This article examines the concept of the “body of God” and the “triple models of God” in McFague’s metaphorical theology, examining and comparing the two and their connection and linkage from his perspective.
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