The Iconoclastic Deity: Biblical Images of GodBucknell University Press, 1984 - 235 من الصفحات This book explores the meanings of images, with particular reference to the images of God found in the Bible, and surveys the various images found. It critically reviews theories of images, as distinguished from symbols, and argues that images are more forceful representations of the deity than are symbols. |
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An Approach to Images | 19 |
Sources and Functions | 37 |
Worship Transcendence and Biblical Images | 44 |
Images or Symbols? | 53 |
The Truth of Images | 64 |
Hermeneutics and the Second Naiveté | 89 |
Naturalistic Images of God | 97 |
Is Spirit an Image? | 141 |
Images of God and Christ in Social and Historical Context | 147 |
Christ the Image of God | 173 |
God as Creator | 182 |
The Transformation of Images | 192 |
The Search for Authoritative Images and Symbols | 214 |
Bibliography | 226 |
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