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Adopted into God’s Family: Exploring a Pauline Metaphor is unavailable, but you can change that!

The relationship between God and his people is understood in various ways by the biblical writers, and it is arguably the apostle Paul who uses the richest vocabulary. Unique to Paul’s writings is the term huiothesia, the process or act of being “adopted as son(s).” It occurs five times in three of his letters, where it functions as a key theological metaphor. Trevor Burke argues that huiothesia...

to adoption is that some feminists argue that the term ‘Father’ should be complemented with other terms such as ‘mother’.3 Others go as far as to suggest that the term ‘father’ should be discarded altogether and replaced by terms such as ‘lover’, ‘companion’, ‘friend’ or ‘liberator’ (McFague 1987). These are issues that need to be addressed, but we need to first consider how the author of Ephesians uses this expression in relation to adoption.
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