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God the Child: Small, Weak and Curious Subversions
God the Child: Small, Weak and Curious Subversions
Graham Adams
SCM Press, 2024, 192pp., pbk., £19.99
Graham Adams’ latest book, God the Child, builds on a theme of the open palm that he identified in his earlier work, Holy Anarchy. Open palmed theology is willing to allow for change, in contrast to clenched fist theology, which is defensive and closed. This second book will be appreciated by those, like me, who have become ill at ease with all-knowing, all-powerful, almighty images of God and are looking for ways of re-imagining God. The title God the Child conveys an important characteristic of the book. It is not rooted in theologies of childhood, or in the incarnation, or in Jesus’ teaching about children. Rather it is a book that destabilises common images of an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent Adult God by arguing that God is neither omni-sensible nor omni-adult. There are ways in which God is small, weak and a Child.
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