Examining six images of God, the author locates an authentic religious response in a healthy balancing of God-images, while religiously motivated violence stems from absolutist theories that fix on only one image of an inexhaustable deity.
Carter Heyward, an Episcopal priest, was the Howard Chandler Robbins Professor of Theology at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is a founder of Free Rein Center for Therapeutic Riding and Education in Brevard, North Carolina