About this episode

Elizabeth Berget discusses how motherhood reveals the maternal heart of God and its implications in theology and scripture.

Elizabeth Berget joins the podcast to explore the maternal heart of God — tracing how the Hebrew word rakum, often translated simply as "compassionate," is linguistically rooted in the word for womb, and what it means that God reaches for that word first when describing himself to Israel. The conversation moves through pregnancy, labor, and the crucifixion, the theology of secure attachment, what scripture's birth language reveals about salvation, and why expanding our image of God isn't a de...

People in this episode

Host: Joshua Johnson

Guest: Elizabeth Berget

Topics covered

• maternal heart of God
• compassion
• theology
• secure attachment
• salvation
• pregnancy
• labor

Keywords

• motherhood
• God
• compassionate
• Hebrew
• theology
• attachment
• salvation
• pregnancy
• labor

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Books & works: rakum, scripture

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