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Image, Word and God in the Early Christian Centuries (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Image, Word and God in the Early Christian Centuries (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Studies in Philosophy and Theology in Late Antiquity
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Christianity proclaims Christ and the incarnate word of God; the
Bible is described as the Word of God in both Jewish and Christian
tradition. Are these usages merely homonymous, or would the
ancients have recognized a more intimate relation between the word
incarnate and the word proclaimed? This book investigates the
concept of logos in pagan, Jewish and Christian thought, with a
view to elucidating the polyphonic functions which the word
acquired when used in theological discourse. Edwards presents a
survey of theological applications of the term Logos in Greek,
Jewish and Christian thought from Plato to Augustine and Proclus.
Special focus is placed on: the relation of words to images in
representation of divine realm, the relation between the logos
within (reason) and the logos without (speech) both in linguistics
and in Christology, the relation between the incarnate Word and the
written text, and the place of reason in the interpretation of
revelation. Bringing together materials which are rarely
synthesized in modern study, this book shows how Greek and biblical
thought part company in their appraisal of the capacity of reason
to grasp the nature of God, and how in consequence verbal
revelation plays a more significant role in biblical teaching.
Edwards shows how this entailed the rejection of images in Jewish
and Christian thought, and how the manifestation in flesh of Christ
as the living word of God compelled the church to reconsider both
the relation of word to image and the interplay between the logos
within and the written logos in the formulation of Christian
doctrine.
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