Can a Christian experience God's love in such a way that they feel sure they are going to heaven? Receiving the Holy Spirit is Luke's preferred term for baptism in the Holy Spirit in Acts. This is mostly about us being assured that we are Christians by the love of God being poured out into our hearts. I realise it is a controversial subject, but I hope I have handled it in a balanced way.
Kim and Shaw deconstruct patriarchal understandings of God as masculine and violent, replacing this male-centered God with one informed by the stories of sexual abuse survivors.