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Humanity in God's Image - An Interdisciplinary Exploration (Hardcover)
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Humanity in God's Image - An Interdisciplinary Exploration (Hardcover)
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How can we, in our times, understand the biblical concept that
human beings have been created in the image of an invisible God?
This is a perennial but increasingly pressing question that lies at
the heart of theological anthropology. Humanity in God's Image: An
Interdisciplinary Exploration clarifies the meaning of this
concept, traces different Jewish and Christian interpretations of
being created in God's image, and reconsiders the significance of
the imago Dei in a post-Holocaust context. As normative,
counter-factual notions, human dignity and the imago Dei challenge
us to see more. Claudia Welz offers an interdisciplinary
exploration of theological and ethical 'visions' of the invisible.
By analysing poetry and art, Welz exemplifies human
self-understanding in the interface between the visual and the
linguistic. The content of the imago Dei cannot be defined apart
from the image carrier: an embodied creature. Compared to verbal,
visual, and mental images, how does this creature as a 'living
image' refer to God-like a metaphor, a mimetic mirror, or an
elusive trace? Combining hermeneutical and phenomenological
perspectives with philosophy of religion and philosophy of
language, semiotics, art history, and literary studies, Welz
regards the imago Dei as a complex sign that is at once iconic,
indexical, and symbolical-pointing beyond itself.
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