Dancing with God: The Trinity from a Womanist Perspective

About this book

Dancing With God is an exploration of the divine gifts of courage and grace in the face of evil. Moreover it is a doctrine of God as the source of that courage. Baker-Fletcher presents an understanding of the work of the Trinity with regard to the problem of crucifixion a metaphor she uses for unnecessary violence. She develops a process of relational womanist theology that considers the empathetic omnipresence of God in the midst of unnecessary suffering and the healing power of God in movement of the Holy Spirit. She engages the contributions of a diversity of theologians like Paul Tillich Karl Barth Gordon Kaufman John Cobb Jr. Majorie Suchocki Charles Hartshorne Andrew Sung Park and Katie Cannon in her discussion of the dance of the Trinity in creation and the problem of sin evil and suffering. Through creative works like that of Alice Walkers The Color Purple and journalist Joyce Kings account of the James Byrd Jr. murder in Jasper County Texas Baker-Fletcher reveals the healing encouraging power of the Holy Spirit in the lives of survivors of unnecessary violence.