ABSTRACT
Christianity is ill-equipped to deal with the author's concerns: contemporary cosmology, evolution, the multiplicity of religions, and the ecological crisis. It is difficult for Christianity in its hegemonic forms to absorb contemporary insights or meet current cultural and ecological needs. The perceptiveness within religions, the vigour of religious experiences and the power of religious sensibilities and symbols to transform problematic situations animate some, but overall few, Christians. The plethora of Christian images of God is collectively incoherent. The topic of the nature of God follows diverse forms of reasoning: morality, truth, beauty, cosmology or nature. God, as imaged within the Trinity, serves as a constant reminder that people do not know much about the breadth and depth of reality and that they are confronted with and yet enveloped by mystery. Most cultures have notions of incarnation: spirits, traits, Gods/Goddesses, divine attributes, and destructive or constructive forces or energies.
