Introduction / Gary W. Deddo -- pt. 1. Calling on God : biblical roots. The divine name in Christian scripture / Christopher R. Seitz -- The gender of Israel's God / Paul Mankowski -- The pronouns of deity : a theolinguistic critique of feminist proposals / Donald D. Hook & Alvin F. Kimel Jr. -- The Christological phallicy in the gospels / Thomas E. Schmidt -- pt. 2. Knowledge, language, society : philosophical questions. Feminist hermeneutics : some epistemological reflections / Francis Martin -- Literal talk of God : its possibility & function / William P. Alston -- pt. 3. Gender & the Christian conception of God : theological considerations. Feminist theology as modern project / R.R. Reno -- Is God sexual? : human embodiment & the Christian conception of God / Stanley J. Grenz -- Secular & eschatological conceptions of salvation in the controversy over the invocation of God / Paul R. Hinlicky