Building upon and correcting the work of Joachim Jeremias, Marianne Meye Thompson surveys the use of “Father” as an image for God in the Old Testament and Second Temple Judaism, Jesus, the Synoptics, Paul, and John. Thompson argues that, rather than rooting the image of God in a debate about gender, the image of “Father” really identifies an “ancestor” who grants an “inheritance.” A respected evangelical scholar, Thompson argues for neither a “strong feminist” nor a “traditionalist” position on God imagery. Westminster John Knox.
