
SUMMARY God images are constructed out of personal and cultural contexts. Expressing ultimate value and meaning, they are inevitably connected to self images. Pastoral counselors are uniquely qualified to relate to and assist in the transformation of these images. This paper discusses the constriction and impoverishment of God images due to traditional restriction of God images to those that are male and personified. Such traditional views are seen as part of a patriarchal, dualistic, literal mindset which has been challenged for several decades by a more holistic, fluid, pluralistic mindset, exemplified by quantum theory. The client and counselor's cocreation of more multiple and fluid images of God which embrace the feminine as well as the masculine, the nurturer as well as the warrior, the natural world in all its dimensions as well as the human, can liberate, enrich, sustain and transform the client's relationships with self and God.
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