This book begins with the proposition enunciated by Eberhard Jüngel that God's being is in coming and that God goes on ways to himself even when they lead to other places, even to that which is not God;This implies, the author argues, that his presence can be found in cultural forms, in the arts in particular, and that what they have to tell us may contribute to our understanding of scriptural revelation since the reception even of sacred texts occur within the context of given culture. Reflecting on the latest novel by Gail Jones, Dreams of Speaking, this book explores the ways in which it may throw light on the significance of the biblical figure of the 'suffering servant', but also on the inability of some Christians to respond to it. The God-Shaped Hole also suggests that to see the sufferings of Aboriginal Australians in terms of this figure is to discover a deeper and richer sense of where and how God may be speaking to us where we are today.
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VERONICA BRADY is a Loreto Sister, Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia. Her most recent book is South of My Days: A Biography of Judith Wright.
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God-Shaped Hole by Veronica Brady, who is with the Department of English and Cultural Studies in the University of Western Australia, has a thought-provoking collection of essays and speeches she has made to prominent and important audiences. In these speeches she explores contemporary literary and secular works and gives her perspective on how these point to "Other," as missed by our religious orders and churches of today. She points out that the Aboriginals of Australia have always known and followed this Mystery, which modern society has cast off or ignored or denied. By omitting the spiritual part of our lives, we moderns have created a vacuum, or God-Shaped Hole, within us individually and as a society, and we don't know what the discomfort is. She points out how literary works, without naming God, reveal to us the great need in our lives to fill this void by seeking the Mystery. She feels that organized religion of today has missed the opportunity of leading people there because of the degeneration into dogma and meaningless ritual. An astute and deep read
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