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Humanity in God's Image

An Interdisciplinary Exploration [Hardback]

by Claudia Welz

    • Author

      Claudia Welz

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Oxford University Press

    • Published

      August 2016

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      Humanity in God's Image

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      How can we, in our times, understand the biblical concept that human beings have been created in the image of an invisible God? This is a perennial but increasingly pressing question that lies at the heart of theological anthropology. Humanity in God's Image: An Interdisciplinary Exploration clarifies the meaning of this concept, traces different Jewish and Christian interpretations of being created in God's image, and reconsiders the significance of the imago Dei in a post-Holocaust context. As normative, counter-factual notions, human dignity and the imago Dei challenge us to see more. Claudia Welz offers an interdisciplinary exploration of theological and ethical 'visions' of the invisible. By analysing poetry and art, Welz exemplifies human self-understanding in the interface between the visual and the linguistic. The content of the imago Dei cannot be defined apart from the image carrier: an embodied creature. Compared to verbal, visual, and mental images, how does this creature as a 'living image' refer to God-like a metaphor, a mimetic mirror, or an elusive trace?
      Combining hermeneutical and phenomenological perspectives with philosophy of religion and philosophy of language, semiotics, art history, and literary studies, Welz regards the imago Dei as a complex sign that is at once iconic, indexical, and symbolical-pointing beyond itself.

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      • Author

        Claudia Welz

      • Book Format

        Hardback

      • Publisher

        Oxford University Press

      • Published

        August 2016

      • Weight

        636g

      • Page Count

        256

      • Dimensions

        155 x 234 x 28 mm

      • ISBN

        9780198784982

      • ISBN-10

        0198784988

      • Eden Code

        4450023

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      • Author/Creator: Claudia Welz

      • ISBN: 9780198784982

      • Publisher: Oxford University Press

      • Release Date: August 2016

      • Weight: 636g

      • Dimensions: 155 x 234 x 28 mm

      • Eden Code: 4450023


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