In our own image : anthropomorphism, apophaticism, and ultimacy / Wesley J. Wildman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wildman, Wesley J., 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropomorphism.

Negative theology.

Physical Description:

xi, 252 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

In Our Own Image is a work of comparative philosophical theology. It is a study of the roles anthropomorphism and apophaticism play in the construction of conceptual models of ultimate reality. Leading scholar Wesley J. Wildman considers whether we create our ideas of God. He offers a comparative analysis of three major classes of ultimacy models, paying particular attention to the way those classes are impacted by anthropomorphism while tracing their relative strengths and weaknesses. Wildman provides a constructive theological argument on behalf of an apophatic understanding of ultimate reality, showing how this understanding subsumes, challenges, and relates ultimacy models from the three classes being compared. An invaluable resource for students and scholars, Wildman compares and evaluates the major classes of theories of ultimate reality. The conclusion is that all models cognitively break on the shoals of ultimate reality, but that the ground-of-being class of models carries us further than the others in regard to the comparative criteria that matter most. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Ultimacy 1

2 Anthropomorphism and Apophaticism 38

3 Agential-Being Models of Ultimate Reality 82

4 Subordinate-Deity Models of Ultimate Reality 151

5 Ground-of-Being Models of Ultimate Reality 185

6 Conclusion 215.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0198815999

9780198815990

OCLC:

991787383