God's Body : Jewish, Christian, and Pagan Images of God /

"In God's Body Markschies traces the shape of the divine form in late antiquity. This exploration follows the development of ideas of God's corporeality in Jewish and Greco-Roman traditions. In antiquity, gods were often like humans, which proved to be important for philosophical refl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Markschies, Christoph (Autor)
Otros Autores: Edmonds, Alexander Johannes (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Hellenism
Paganism > History
God (Greek religion)
God (Christianity) > History of doctrines
God (Judaism) > History of doctrines
God > History of doctrines
Anthropomorphism
God > Corporeality
Romans > Religion.
Paganism.
Interfaith relations.
Hellenism.
Greeks > Religion.
God (Judaism) > History of doctrines.
God > History of doctrines.
God (Christianity) > History of doctrines.
Christianity and culture > Early church.
Christianity.
Anthropomorphism.
anthropomorphism.
Hellenisme.
Paganisme > Histoire.
Dieu (Religion grecque)
Dieu (Christianisme) > Histoire des doctrines.
Dieu (Judaïsme) > Histoire des doctrines.
Dieu > Histoire des doctrines.
Anthropomorphisme.
Dieu > Corporeite > Histoire des doctrines.
Paganism > History.
God > Corporeality > History of doctrines.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"In God's Body Markschies traces the shape of the divine form in late antiquity. This exploration follows the development of ideas of God's corporeality in Jewish and Greco-Roman traditions. In antiquity, gods were often like humans, which proved to be important for philosophical reflection and for worship. Markschies considers how a cultic environment nurtured, and transformed, Jewish and Christian descriptions of the divine, as well as how philosophical debates over the connection of body and soul in humanity provided a conceptual framework for imagining God. Markschies probes the connections between this lively culture of religious practice and philosophical speculation and the christological formulations of the church to discover how the dichotomy of an incarnate God and a fleshless God came to be. By studying the religious and cultural past, Markschies reveals a Jewish and Christian heritage alien to modern sensibilities, as well as a God who is less alien to the human experience than much of Western thought has imagined. Since the almighty God who made all creation has also lived in that creation, the biblical idea of humankind as image of God should be taken seriously and not restricted to the conceptual world but rather applied to the whole person."--
Notas:Originally published : Gottes Körper: jüdische, christliche und pagane Gottesvorstellungen in der Antike. München: Verlag C.H. Beck, 2016.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (632 pages): illustrations ;
ISBN:9781481311724

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