The embodied God: seeing the divine in Luke-Acts and the early church
In The Embodied God, Wilson focuses on depictions of God's body in the New Testament. She argues that Luke-Acts emerges as an important example of a New Testament text that portrays God as visible and corporeal and that this portrayal has significant implications for how we are to understand ea...
| Summary: | In The Embodied God, Wilson focuses on depictions of God's body in the New Testament. She argues that Luke-Acts emerges as an important example of a New Testament text that portrays God as visible and corporeal and that this portrayal has significant implications for how we are to understand early Christology. cover -- The Embodied God -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Sources -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Seeing God's Body -- Part I. Seeing God -- 1. Imaging God: Idolatry and Divine Anthropomorphism -- 2. Glimpsing God: Visions and Theophanies -- 3. Encountering God: Divine Fluidity and God's Many Forms -- Part II. Seeing Jesus -- 4. Seeing the Light: Jesus's Divinity and Epiphanic Form -- 5. Visually Verifying the Corporeal Christ: Jesus's Humanity and Fleshly Form -- 6. Beholding the Human One: Christophanies and Jesus's Embodied Form in Heaven -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Ancient Sources -- Index of Modern Authors. |
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| ISBN: | 0190080833 |