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Ausgabe:

Dezember/2018

Spalte:

1322–1323

Kategorie:

Systematische Theologie: Dogmatik

Autor/Hrsg.:

Welz, Claudia

Titel/Untertitel:

Humanity in God’s Image. An Interdisciplinary Exploration.

Verlag:

Oxford u. a.: Oxford University Press 2016. 256 S. Geb. US$ 105,00. ISBN 978-0-19-878498-2.

Rezensent:

Deidre Nicole Green

In her multifaceted and wide-ranging study, Claudia Welz addresses the question of how to understand the idea that the human being is created in the image of God who remains invisible. Her three aims are to: clarify the meaning of the biblical notion of imago Dei, including the imago Christi; trace various interpretations of humanity in God’s image and reformulate them in terms of a contemporary debate on epistemological status of images, signs, and metaphorical language visualizing the invisible; and discuss theological and ethical questions regarding human dignity in a post-Holocaust context. Conceived as problem-oriented, the book ex-plores different models of the imago Dei, the process of divine self-disclosure through revelation, redemption against the backdrop ...


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