1. Sallie McFague applied this approach, in particular, to ecological issues, writing extensively on care for the Earth as if it were God's "body".
15 Facts About Sallie McFague
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Sallie McFague was Distinguished Theologian in Residence at the Vancouver School of Theology, British Columbia, Canada.
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Sallie McFague received the LittD from Smith College in 1977.
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Sallie McFague was Distinguished Theologian in Residence at the Vancouver School of Theology, British Columbia, Canada.
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Sallie McFague was Theologian in Residence at Dunbar Ryerson United Church in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Sallie McFague was a member of the Anglican Church of Canada.
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Sallie McFague later married Janet Cawley, and they were together until Sallie McFague's death.
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Sallie McFague remarked, "theology is mostly fiction", but a multiplicity of images, or metaphors, can and should enhance and enrich our models of God.
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Sallie McFague remarked that: "we construct the worlds we inhabit, but that we forget we have done so".
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Sallie McFague stressed that all models are partial, and are thought-experiments with shortcomings: many are needed, and need to function together.
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For Sallie McFague, God is the one 'who judges those who thwart the well-being and fulfilment of her body, our world'.
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Sallie McFague elaborated this metaphor at length in The Body of God: An Ecological Theology.
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Sallie McFague defended her views as not monist but panentheist.
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Redemption is downplayed, though not excluded: Sallie McFague emphasized, characteristically, that it 'should include all dimensions of creation, not just human beings' and that it is a fulfilment of that creation, not a rescue from it.
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Sallie McFague defended her approach as simply being about a refocusing, a 'turn of the eyes of theologians away from heaven and towards the earth'.