The Imago Dei as the Imago Trinitatis
Subtitle: Jürgen Moltmann's doctrine of the image of God
By: Isaiah Nengean
Series: American university studies. Series VII, theology and religion -- vol. 327; American university studies -- v. 327.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9781433121586; 9781453911280
Subjects: Image of God; Theological anthropology; Gottesvorstellung; Gotteslehre; Christianity
Description: This book examines the doctrine of the image of God in the interpretation of contemporary theologian Jürgen Moltmann. A Reformed theologian from Germany, Moltmann espouses the doctrine in a way that creates a blurring of the Creator-creation distinction. This work identifies the problem with Moltmann's formulation of the doctrine of the image of God as stemming from Moltmann's rejection of classical theism or monotheism. He replaces it with the notion of transcendental immanence, together with Trinitarian pantheism, accentuated by means of Hegelian dialectics in alignment with Eastern Orthodox perspectives of the Trinity. Moltmann, therefore, makes the Trinity the foundation of all theologies, and, accordingly, understands the Imago Dei as the Imago Trinitatis. As a result, Moltmann blurs the Creator-creation distinction. According to the Scriptures however, the image of God denotes elements of similarity between the divine and human beings. The image of God is first allocated in an individual and by extension includes the entire global community. In addition, the biblical idea of Christ as the true image, the soteriological understanding of believers as beings in union with Christ, and the theological idea of covenant all express similar thoughts. Within this outlook, human beings reflect the divine without the divine needing to be joined to human beings. (Back cover).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-181).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Statement of the problem --; title: Thesis statement --; title: A brief statement regarding Jürgen Mortmann --; title: The present status of the problem --; title: Prospectus --; title: The Imago Dei in contemporary theological debate --; title: Conclusion --; title: The concept and nature of God according to Jürgen Moltmann -- -- Introduction; title: God as community --; title: Divine passibility --; title: God is love --; title: God and freedom --; title: Transcendence and immanence of God --; title: Moltmann's Trinitarian panenthiesm --; title: Philosophical foundation of Jürgen Moltmann's theology -- -- Introduction; title: Hegel's Dialectics --; title: Ernst Bloch --; title: Dietrich Bonhoeffer --; title: Trinitarian fellowship as the image of God -- -- Introduction; title: Trinrtarian creation --; title: The image of Cod as the image of the Trinity --; title: Imago Christi : christological aspect of the image of God --; title: The pneumatological facet of the Imago Dei --; title: Imago Dei as Gloria Dei : the eschatolgical feature of the image of God --; title: The evaluation of Jürgen Moltmann's statement of Imago Dei as the Imago trinitatis -- -- Introduction; title: Sin and the image of God --; title: Scriptural assessment --; title: Theological analysis --; title: Summary and conclusion ---- Notes-- Bibliography.