Dunno, but it appears to be self-published. I found it on Amazon.co.uk, and on the author's website, which also had this picture of the cover:
Posted on 12/02/2008 5:33:02 PM PST by Alex Murphy
God Is a Woman and The Future’s Female
by John O’Connell
Oak Grove Books, £6.99
MENTION politics and religion in the same breath in Ireland and you could have a controversial recipe for disaster. Enter Derry author and self-proclaimed Christian mystic John O’Connell with his deceptively compelling new work, the full title of which is, would you believe, God Is a Woman and The Future’s Female: Why Our Lady is Really God and Mark Durkan Knows It, the Unionists Deny It but Gerry Adams Just Doesn’t Get It At All!
O’Connell has already penned 11 books on various spiritual topics in Ireland, but in this latest work he attempts to reveal that the battle of the sexes is the key to understanding God and Christianity.
For O’Connell, God is saying She rejects the threat or use of violence in achieving change. Masculine values are the real enemy as they were in the time of Jesus of Nazareth when the Jews were emasculated by the Romans as part of their preparation to receive an emasculated Christ.
Furthermore, O’Connell contends that Irish nationalists have also been emasculated in preparation for receiving a new emasculated Jesus. And this is why O’Connell subtitles this controversial new book: “For the conversion of Sinn Fein to Christianity.”
The role of women in the Christian church in Ireland is a particularly thorny issue, especially among sections of fundamentalist Protestantism and conservative Catholicism. For O’Connell, “this can only mean that God has a special place in her heart and in her plan for female values.” Targeting the male leaders of the Unionist and nationalist parties in Northern Ireland, O’Connell pursues this highly contentious and unorthodox notion that God is a woman.
Whatever your view of O’Connell’s contentions, and whether you think they are credible or he’s just another crank, his work is rapidly becoming one of the most hotly discussed topics in church circles over here.
The book’s front cover adds to the mystery and the message with photos of Our Lady of Medjugorje – one of the most revered figures in Irish Catholicism – alongside SDLP leader Mark Durkan and Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams.
There are also some equally controversial chapters on former First Minister Ian Paisley senior of the DUP and current Ulster Unionist Party leader Reg Empey. Weird or wonderful, O’Connell is at, the very least, a highly entertaining writer.
If you’re concerned about the sex of God then you are missing the point.
Only people/places mentioned in here are from Northern Ireland which is not Ireland, but Great Britain.
Judaism has a concept of “the feminine” sense of God in the Shekhinah. Otherwise this seems like a throwback to the feminist wiccan Starhawk stuff of the ‘80s.
I’m sure this had to do with a search for naked priests. There seems to be a rather sick fascination with the topic. But any anti-Catholic thread will do.
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Galatians 3:28 (New International Version)
28There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Oak Grove Books
Sounds familiar, but Google pulls up nada. Pagan?
Dunno, but it appears to be self-published. I found it on Amazon.co.uk, and on the author's website, which also had this picture of the cover:
What happened to the bit about the thick skin? How are these false complaints of stalking not "making it personal" and thus thin-skinned and thus the true disruptions?
Oh-key then.
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Marian Medjugorje Apparitions and Messages of the Blessed Virgin MaryFor quite a while now, in Medjugorje (Čitluk, Bosnia-Herzegovina) six trustworthy witnesses, testify firmly under oath, that since the 24th of June 1981, the Blessed Virgin Mary, or the "Gospa", as she is affectionately known as here, appears to them every day up to the present....
....All this time, from the beginning of the apparitions up until today, there have only been five days when none of the children saw Our Lady. Our Lady didn't always appear in the same place either, nor to the same group, nor individuals, nor did her apparitions always last a specified period. Sometimes the apparitions lasted two minutes, sometimes an hour. Neither did Our Lady appear at the children's will. Sometimes they prayed and waited but Our Lady didn't appear until a little while afterwards, unexpectedly and unforewarned. And sometimes she appeared to one and not to the others. If she hadn't promised an appointed time, nobody knew when she would appear, or if she would appear. Neither did she appear always to just the aforesaid visionaries, but to others also of different age, stature, race, education and walks of life. All this suggests that the apparitions are not a product of the imagination. It depends neither on time nor place, nor desire nor the prayer of pilgrim or visionary, but moreover on the will of He who permits it.
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