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In God's Image : An Anthropology of the Spirit

By Michael Welker

Book information

Publisher
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Year
2021
ISBN
9780802878663, 9780802878748, 2020032274
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
829 kB (848990 bytes)
Pages
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Topic
Religion
Time added
2021-05-25 06:16:28

Description

From the 2019/2020 Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh In God’s Image describes how centering our culture on the human and divine spirit can revitalize four universally acknowledged characteristics of a thriving human existence: justice, freedom, truth, and peace. Inspired not only by religious sources but also by scientists, philosophers, economists, and legal and political theorists, Michael Welker develops the idea of a “multimodal” spirit that generates the possibility of living and acting in the image of God. Welker’s new approach to natural theology explains why the human and the divine spirit cannot adequately be grasped in simple bipolar relations and why the human spirit should not be reduced to the rational mind. Addressing the question What is the calling of human beings? in the context of late-modern pluralistic societies, he aims at explaining to believers and nonbelievers alike what it means to be persons created in the image of God, moved by a spirit of justice, freedom, truth, and peace.

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