Claudia Welz

Humanity in God's Image

An Interdisciplinary Exploration

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study which suggests human beings are created in the image of an invisible God, an idea that can only be conceptualized in the imagination.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780198784982
• ISBN-10: 0198784988
• Artikelnr.: 47868577

Autorenporträt

Claudia Welz is Professor with special responsibilities in Ethics and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Copenhagen.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: 'Imago Dei' and the Dialectics of In-Visibility
* Part I: CREATION AND CREATIVITY
* 1: Dialectics of Visibility and Invisibility: The 'Imago Dei' as a
Complex Sign Pointing beyond Itself
* 2: Subjectivity of Seeing: The 'Imago Dei' as Self-Interpreting Image
* Part II: REVEALMENT AND CONCEALMENT
* 3: Resonating and Reflecting the Divine: The 'Imago Dei' as
God-Revealing Humanity in Jewish Theology, Philosophy, and Poetry
* 4: Divine-Human Dis-Similarity: Freedom, Sin, and Relational Ontology
in Reformation Theology
* Part III: REORIENTATION AND REDEMPTION
* 5: Likeness to God in Love and Suffering: Imagination,
Identification, and Religious Reorientation
* 6: Glory from Elsewhere: The Human Being as Embodied Image of God
* Part IV: ETHICS WITH AN ESCHATOLOGICAL PROVISO
* 7: 'Imago Dei' and Crimes against Humanity: Biblical and
Post-Holocaust Perspectives on an Ethics of In-Visibility
* 8: 'Imago Dei' and Human Dignity: Reciprocal Regard and an
Unfulfilled Demand
* Conclusion: Vision and Speech
* Bibliography
* Index