The Divine Image
Envisioning the Invisible God
Published on 14. October 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-8006-3762-0 (ISBN)
Description
Theologian Ian McFarland claims that Christians havemainly misappropriated the "image of God" languagefor 2000 years and thereby missed a rich resource for ourknowledge of God.
Rather than referring to some germinal divine element inhumans, such as reason, McFarland claims that the image ofGod in us tells us something about God and how we knowGod. It tells us that God, though not identical with us, communicates Godself to us in creative love, in a way thatoffers precious clues about God's transcendence, immanence, triune life, self-disclosure, incarnation, andintentions for human life. McFarland's careful and exacting work builds from this kernel a powerful Christian vision of God's life and ourown destiny in Christ.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
376 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8006-3762-0 (9780800637620)
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Ian A McFarland is Senior Lecturer in Systematic Theology, University of Aberdeen. His previous publications include Difference and Identity: A Theological Anthropology (2001) and Listening to the Least: Doing Theology from the Outside In (1998).