A Big-Enough God: A Feminist's Search for a Joyful Theology

Maitland, British novelist (Three Times Table, Daughter of Jerusalem, Ancestral Truths, etc.) and Christian feminist (A Map of the New Country), has here produced a beautifully written book that is part paean to God and part explication of faith. Despite its subtitle, it is also a thinking person's search, not just a feminist's. Providing in the evident acts of divine creation buttresses for the radical act of human faith, Maitland's is a God who struggles to make Herself known to and loved by Creation. ``Joy is the game, the playing, between God and God's creation,'' Maitland writes; and the result of her chronicling of that game is, as the subtitle more accurately reports, a joyful theology that, like the God it celebrates, looks on creation and finds it very good. Recommended for all who seek to enrich their spiritual journeys or simply to expand their theological sensibilities. (Oct.)