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Gottes Körper : jüdische, christliche und pagane Gottesvorstellungen in der Antike / Christoph Markschies.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Markschies, Christoph, author.
- Language:
- German
- Subjects (All):
- God--Corporeality--History of doctrines.
- God.
- Anthropomorphism.
- God--History of doctrines.
- God (Judaism)--History of doctrines.
- God (Judaism).
- God (Christianity)--History of doctrines.
- God (Christianity).
- God (Greek religion).
- Christianity and other religions--Greek.
- Christianity and other religions.
- Christianity and other religions--Roman.
- Christianity and culture--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.
- Christianity and culture.
- History.
- Paganism--History.
- Paganism.
- Hellenism.
- Christianity.
- Christianity and culture--Early church.
- Greeks--Religion.
- Interfaith relations.
- Romans--Religion.
- God--Corporeality.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 900 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Other Title:
- Jüdische, christliche und pagane Gottesvorstellungen in der Antike
- Place of Publication:
- München : Verlag C.H. Beck, [2016]
- Summary:
- In his brilliantly-described book on ancient religion, Christoph Markschies acquaints us with a Christianity that seems astonishingly strange, rooted deeply in the world of pagan images of God. He discusses the connections between Christianity and ancient religion, and explains why it was that in the Middle Ages, the depiction of God that is familiar to us today--as a bodiless being--first became generally accepted. Does God have a body, and if so, how many? In antiquity, it was self-evident even to educated Christians that God had a body, just as the pagan gods did. Christoph Markschies shows how the physical body of God was imagined; he follows the philosophical and theological debates on the subject; he visits the ancient temples; and he describes the complex relationship between the Judeo-Christian God and the pagan gods.
- Contents:
- Der Körper Gottes nach dem Ende der Antike
- Der Körper Gottes in der jüdisch-christlichen Bibel und bei den frühen christlichen Theologen
- Der Körper Gottes und die antiken Götterstatuen
- Die Körper der Götter und die Körper der Seelen in der Spätantike
- Der Körper Gottes und die spätantike jüdische Mystik
- Der Körper Gottes in der spätantiken christlichen Theologie
- Der Körper Gottes und die antike Christologie
- Schluss: Erledigte Vorstellungen von Gott?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 770-868) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783406668661
- 3406668666
- OCLC:
- 902632683
- Publisher Number:
- 9783406668661
- Online:
- Table of contents
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