Humanity in God's Image
Subtitle: An Interdisciplinary Exploration
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780198784982
Subjects: Image of god; Children of god; God, fatherhood
Description: 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. This text 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.