A human-shaped God : theology of an embodied God / Charles Halton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Halton, Charles, 1978- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

God--Biblical teaching.

God.

God--Corporeality.

Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 pages)

Place of Publication:

Louisville, Kentucky : Westminster John Knox Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Approaches the humanlike accounts of God in the Old Testament as the starting places for theology and uses them to build a picture of the divine"-- Provided by publisher.

A Human-Shaped God approaches the humanlike accounts of God in the Old Testament as the starting places for theology and uses them to build a picture of the divine. This understanding of God is then brought into conversation with traditional conceptions that depict God as a being who knows everything that happens, is at every place at the same time, is constant and unchanging, and does not ultimately have material form. But instead of pitting the Old Testament's humanlike view of God against traditional theology and assuming that only one of these understandings is correct, A Human-Shaped God posits that theologians should embrace both of these constructions simultaneously. This is a new way of theological inquiry that embraces both the humanlike characteristics of God and the transcendence of God in traditional theology. By seeing and understanding the humanlike depictions of God in the Old Testament and by using the rich language of traditional theology together in tandem, the reader acquires a much deeper and meaningful understanding of God.

Contents:

Imagining a human-shaped God

God, humanlike and not

God's body

God's mind

God's emotions

God's character

Embracing a humanlike God.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Halton, Charles, 1978- Human-shaped God

ISBN:

9781646982219

1646982215