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- Title
God at Play: Seeing God Through the Lens of the Young Krishna.
- Authors
Largen, Kristin Johnston
- Abstract
This article begins with the absence of biblical stories about Jesus' youth. This lack means that typical boyhood characteristics, such as playfulness, are absent from a traditional Christian picture of the divine. Using the lens of stories told about Krishna's youth in the Bhagavata Purana, I suggest that Christians could learn from the Hindu idea of a 'god at play,' as such a concept enhances a Christian understanding of who God has revealed Godself to be, and how Christians are called to be in relationship to God.
- Subjects
JESUS Christ -- Childhood; KRISHNA (Hindu deity) -- Childhood; PURANAS. Bhagavatapurana; CHRISTIANS; GOD in Christianity
- Publication
Dialog: A Journal of Theology, 2011, Vol 50, Issue 3, p253
- ISSN
0012-2033
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-6385.2011.00618.x