Did God Die on the Way to Houston? a Queer Tale: A Work of Theological Fiction - Hardcover

Myers, David B

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1725259516 ISBN 13: 9781725259515

Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2020

Synopsis

James Friedman, a retired philosophy professor living in Houston, receives an invitation from a woman, identifying herself only as Shekhinah, who claims she was once God. She wants to talk to him about her decision to abandon heaven for earth. Accepting the invitation, Friedman encounters a tall, ebony-skinned, twenty-three-year-old, same-gender-loving woman who is wearing a ""Black Lives Matter"" t-shirt. She tells Friedman a creation story about a loving God who, at the moment of creation, fourteen billion years ago, gave up power over the world out of respect for human freedom. This view of God is similar to one Friedman has expounded. According to Shekhinah, to God's horror and surprise, countless human beings have misused their freedom to cause massive injustice--bigotry, genocide, cruelty, etc.--and to put the earth itself in peril. Powerless as God, Shekhinah asserts that the Creator could make a difference in the world only by becoming a human being--which meant the death of God. God, she claims, entered the world as a Black, Same-Gender-Loving Woman to divinely affirm three often disrespected identities. For reasons she reveals, Shekhinah, now a socially engaged secular Buddhist, chose Houston as the place to partner with others and begin her project of saving a damaged planet and achieving justice for all human beings.

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About the Author

David B. Myers is professor of philosophy, emeritus, at Minnesota State University Moorhead. He is president of the Fargo-Moorhead Interfaith Center. He is author of Marx and Nietzsche (1986); New Soviet Thinking and U.S. Nuclear Policy (1990); and Did God Die on the Way to Houston? A Queer Tale (2020). He is also author of numerous articles in professional philosophy journals.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1725259516
• ISBN 13: 9781725259515
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 236