Hi Derrick, thanks so much for sharing this mate. I had actually almost written a short note about the gendered language in the DBH quote -- it's the only thing I'm not a huge fan of in those lines! Whilst I agree with the points you've made, I would add that God can/is also expressed through human concepts of gender (there's that paradox of God's transcendence/imminence again)... the issue is when we insist that God is reducible to/identified with one particular gender -- the male gender in this instance (and for much of the history of Christianity). I wholeheartedly agree that this is deeply problematic. Hence, I would say that any time we are trying to describe God in human language with human concepts (including concepts of gender), we are utilising analogy. God is not literally a "he" (thank goodness for that), but God-as-infinite-being does contain the fullness of gender in all its diverse expressions. That's how I make sense of it, anyhow. Thanks again for stopping by!