Carter Heyward - "The Enigmatic God" (November 20, 1977)

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Title:
Carter Heyward - "The Enigmatic God" (November 20, 1977)
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  • Sermon start time: (Part 1) 41:05. Sermon end time: (Part 1) 1:14:58.

  • Drawing from process theology, feminist theology, and reflection on God's revelation of God's name "I am who I am/I will be who I willbe," Heyward presents a meditation of God's radical freedom and commitment to identify with God's creation and invites the listener to live into the freedom to be who she or he is in God, by God, through God and names four qualities which are ways of God: wisdom, passion, justice, and prayer. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)

  • Key quotation: Jesus Christ did not come to clarify the enigmatic God. Jesus Christ did not come to help us put God into an incarnate box that we can carry around with us and show off as God … Jesus came as one created in God, by God, empowered to move with God into the pain, the passion, and the wonder of creation itself.”

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https://idn.duke.edu/ark:/87924/r4bv7b94j
Date:
November 20, 1977
Speaker:
Heyward, Carter
Liturgical Calendar:
Ordinary Time
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Contributor:
Duke University. Chapel
Identifier:
  • UA.17.01.0003 RR-0925
  • ref7053_5ne
  • uachapelsermaud
  • duke:321253
  • dcrau001825
  • ark:/87924/r4bv7b94j
  • f0bec1b8-8307-4d14-822f-df45afea5893
Digital Collection:
Duke Chapel Recordings
Source Collection:
Duke University Chapel recordings, 1954-2005
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Language:
English
Location:
  • United States
  • North Carolina
  • Durham (N.C.)
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Provenance:
The Duke University Chapel Recordings were transferred to the Duke University Archives beginning in 1970.
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Limited Re-Use
CC BY-NC 4.0
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