Research Catalog

Title

God's body : Jewish, Christian, and pagan images of God / Christoph Markschies ; translated by Alexander Johannes Edmonds.

Author

Markschies, Christoph

Publication

Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, [2019]

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Details

Additional Authors

Edmonds, Alexander Johannes

Description

xvi, 616 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"In God's Body Markschies traces the shape of the divine form in late antiquity. This exploration follows the development of ideas of God's corporeality in Jewish and Greco-Roman traditions. In antiquity, gods were often like humans, which proved to be important for philosophical reflection and for worship. Markschies considers how a cultic environment nurtured, and transformed, Jewish and Christian descriptions of the divine, as well as how philosophical debates over the connection of body and soul in humanity provided a conceptual framework for imagining God. Markschies probes the connections between this lively culture of religious practice and philosophical speculation and the christological formulations of the church to discover how the dichotomy of an incarnate God and a fleshless God came to be. By studying the religious and cultural past, Markschies reveals a Jewish and Christian heritage alien to modern sensibilities, as well as a God who is less alien to the human experience than much of Western thought has imagined. Since the almighty God who made all creation has also lived in that creation, the biblical idea of humankind as image of God should be taken seriously and not restricted to the conceptual world but rather applied to the whole person."--

Uniform Title

Gottes Körper. English

Alternative Title

Gottes Körper.

Subjects

• God > Corporeality > History of doctrines
• History
• Interfaith relations
• God > History of doctrines
• God (Greek religion)
• Christianity and culture > Early church
• Christianity
• Romans > Religion
• God (Judaism) > History of doctrines
• Greeks > Religion
• Anthropomorphism
• 30-600
• God (Christianity) > History of doctrines
• Hellenism
• Paganism > History

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Originally published : Gottes Körper: jüdische, christliche und pagane Gottesvorstellungen in der Antike. München: Verlag C.H. Beck, 2016.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Language (note)

• Translated from the original German into English.

Contents

The body of God after antiquity -- The body of God in the Judeo-Christian Bible and the early Christian theologians -- The body of God and divine statues in antiquity -- The bodies of gods and the bodies of souls in late antiquity -- The body of God and late antique Jewish mysticism -- The body of God in late antique Christian theology -- The body of God and antique Christology -- Conclusion: Settled conceptions of God?

Call Number

JFE 20-4132

ISBN

• 9781481311687
• 1481311689
• 9781481311724 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019005228

OCLC

1099821702

Author

Markschies, Christoph, author.

Title

God's body : Jewish, Christian, and pagan images of God / Christoph Markschies ; translated by Alexander Johannes Edmonds.

Publisher

Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Language

Translated from the original German into English.

Chronological Term

30-600

Added Author

Edmonds, Alexander Johannes, translator.

Other Form:

Online version: Markschies, Christoph, God's body 1. Waco : Baylor University Press, 2019. 9781481311724 (DLC) 2019981361

Research Call Number

JFE 20-4132