{"product_id":"humanity-in-gods-image-claudia-welz-9780198784982","title":"Humanity in God's Image: An Interdisciplinary Exploration","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. \u003cem\u003eHumanity in God's Image: An Interdisciplinary Exploration\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eimago Dei\u003c\/em\u003e in a post-Holocaust context. As normative, counter-factual notions, human dignity and the \u003cem\u003eimago Dei\u003c\/em\u003e challenge us to see more. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eClaudia Welz offers an interdisciplinary exploration of theological and ethical \"visions\" of the invisible. By analyzing poetry and art, Welz exemplifies human self-understanding in the interface between the visual and the linguistic. The content of the \u003cem\u003eimago Dei\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Claudia Welz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198784988\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198784982\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/25\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.10d","brand":"Claudia Welz","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46372288561407,"sku":"9780198784982","price":155.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_33596d41-cdf3-4d43-8ede-7416db47079e.jpg?v=1732725532","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/humanity-in-gods-image-claudia-welz-9780198784982","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}