The Divine Image: Envisioning the Invisible God

Ian A. McFarland

ISBN 10: 0800637623 / ISBN 13: 9780800637620

Verlag: Augsburg Fortress, 2005

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Titel: The Divine Image: Envisioning the Invisible ...

Verlag: Augsburg Fortress

Erscheinungsdatum: 2005

Einband: Paperback

Zustand: New

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Theologian Ian McFarland claims that Christians have mainly misappropriated the "image of God" language for 2000 years and thereby missed a rich resource for our knowledge of God. Rather than referring to some germinal divine element in humans, such as reason, McFarland claims that the image of God in us tells us something about God and how we know God. It tells us that God, though not identical with us, communicates Godself to us in creative love, in a way that offers precious clues about God's transcendence, immanence, triune life, self-disclosure, incarnation, and intentions for human life. McFarland's careful and exacting work builds from this kernel a powerful Christian vision of God's life and our own destiny in Christ.

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Ian A.McFarland is Senior Lecturer in Systematic Theology, University of Aberdeen, Scotland. His previous publications include Difference and Identity: A Theological Anthropology (2001) and Listening to the Least: Doing Theology from the Outside In (1998).