Humanity in God's image : an interdisciplinary exploration /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Welz, Claudia (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Theological anthropology > Judaism. Theological anthropology > Christianity. Image of God. Children of God. God > Fatherhood > Biblical teaching.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: imago Dei and the dialectics of in-visibility
Deictic references to the invisible: the imago Dei as a complex sign pointing beyond itself
Subjectivity of seeing: the imago Dei as self-interpreting image
Resonating and reflecting the divine: the imago Dei as God-revealing humanity in Jewish theology, philosophy, and poetry
Divine-human (dis-)similarity: freedom, sin, and relational ontology in Reformation theology
Likeness to God in love and suffering: imagination, identification, and religious reorientation
Glory from elsewhere: the human being as embodied image of God
Imago Dei and crimes against humanity: biblical and post-Holocaust perspectives on an ethics of in-visibility
Imago Dei and human dignity: reciprocal regard and an unfulfilled demand
Conclusion: vision and speech.