ABSTRACT
Of all the metaphors for God to be found in the movies, none is more startling, more original, and more profound than the image of Jessica Lange as God in Bob Fosse’s remarkable film All That Jazz. In fact, in both the Jewish and Christian scriptures, God appears as a passionate lover. Many fundamentalist and evangelical folk find that metaphor difficult to accept. They want the statement “God is Love” interpreted in an equivocal sense. Love has a totally different meaning, they argue, when predicated of God and of humans. Catholicism has finessed the issue with its devotion to Mary, the Mother of Jesus who reflects the womanly dimensions of God to the Catholic faithful and hence is enormously popular with them. In one survey, a quarter of Americans (again, men more than women) said that at least sometimes their spouse was like a god to them.
