Author : Noreen L. Herzfeld
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 32,57 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451415186
In Our Image brilliantly illuminates who we are as humans by demonstrating the surprisingly deep parallels between our motivations to replicate ourselves through computer technology and our emerging understanding of ourselves as relational beings created in God's image. This book is required reading for anyone--Christian or non-Christian--intrigued by the possibility of artificial intelligence.
Author : Anthony A. Hoekema
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 20,79 MB
Release : 1994-09-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802808509
ccording to Scripture, humankind was created in the image of God. Hoekema discusses the implications of this theme, devoting several chapters to the biblical teaching on God's image, the teaching of philosophers and theologians through the ages, and his own theological analysis. Suitable for seminary-level anthropology courses, yet accessible to educated laypeople. Extensive bibliography, fully indexed.
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Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 45,84 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9780802136107
Hailed as "the most radical repackaging of the Bible since Gutenberg", these Pocket Canons give an up-close look at each book of the Bible.
Author : J. Richard Middleton
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 16,93 MB
Release : 2005-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1587431106
Offers a deeply informed take on a key Christian doctrine and its interpretation and relevance today.
Author : Steven J. Lawson
Publisher : Multnomah
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 31,56 MB
Release : 2000-05-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1576736105
Digital imaging can alter a picture so fast it leaves people asking, "What is reality?" Have we bought into a user-friendly, "designer" God of our own? In his eighth provocative primer on Christian living, Pastor Steven Lawson asks if we're seeing a true picture of God these days, or a distorted one designed to fit a popular image on the present cultural canvas? Lawson tackles the timely topic on the personal and greater church levels. Non-condemning, Made in Our Image alerts readers to the dangers of a socially constructed deity and inspires them to "accept no counterfeits" for the true, living, sometimes "socially incorrect" God.
Author : Nancy Sohn Swartz
Publisher : Jewish Lights Publishing
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,91 MB
Release : 2011-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781683366522
Nondenominational, Nonsectarian Endorsed by Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish Religious Leaders "In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth...But something was missing..." Before creating humans, God said, "Let us make humans in Our image, after Our likeness." In this playful new twist to the Genesis story, God asks all of nature to offer gifts to humankind―with the promise that the humans would care for creation in return. Then, woman and man were formed from the dust of the earth, in the image of God and in the image of all of nature. And it was very good, indeed. Whether you're large like the whale, small like the ant, lazy like the lizard or busy like the bee, this spirited story with its lively illustrations celebrates the interconnectedness of nature and the harmony of all living things.
Author : Oried E. Graves
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 26,34 MB
Release : 2012-10-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1466958065
Everyone who reads the Bible must admit that it tells us to do things that we never have done and cannot do in our fleshly bodies. One reason is that God our Creator is telling us what He wants us to be and do as created in His image and likeness. Our purpose is in our image and likeness of God our Creator, not like the dust of the ground or the flesh of our parents. Most children dont know that they are created in the image and likeness of God, and their parents have not asked God for His spirit for their children so they can be taught this vital truth. The reason parents dont ask God for His spirit for their children is because they dont recognize the need for Him. There are several things mankind cannot do in the flesh, and they must recognize their origin in the image and likeness of God. Mankind must recognize being in the image and likeness of God to, first, love God with all their being and love his neighbors as himself; second, to obey God and his parents as required in Gods word; third, to trust God with all his heart; fourth, to worship God in spirit and in truth; and fifth, to glorify God in his body and spirit, which are God. The devil does not want mankind to know that he is created in the image and likeness of God because man will always defeat Satan and fulfill God's will.
Author : John F. Kilner
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 37,74 MB
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802867642
Misunderstandings about what it means for humans to be created in God's image have wreaked devastation throughout history -- for example, slavery in the U. S., genocide in Nazi Germany, and the demeaning of women everywhere. In Dignity and Destiny John Kilner explores what the Bible itself teaches about humanity being in God's image. He discusses in detail all of the biblical references to the image of God, interacts extensively with other work on the topic, and documents how misunderstandings of it have been so problematic. People made according to God's image, Kilner says, have a special connection with God and are intended to be a meaningful reflection of him. Because of sin, they don't actually reflect him very well, but Kilner shows why the popular idea that sin has damaged the image of God is mistaken. He also clarifies the biblical difference between being God's image (which Christ is) and being in God's image (which humans are). He explains how humanity's creation and renewal in God's image are central, respectively, to human dignity and destiny. Locating Christ at the center of what God's image means, Kilner charts a constructive way forward and reflects on the tremendously liberating impact that a sound understanding of the image of God can have in the world today.
Author : Charles Edward Trinkaus
Publisher :
Page : 985 pages
File Size : 35,73 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Human beings
ISBN : 9780268011734
Author : Stephen H. Smith
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,76 MB
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1514448955
The thesis of In Our Image is that the traditional Christian assertion that God made man in his image (Gen. 1: 26) has been turned on its head by Christian orthodoxy, and that it is most often the believer who makes God in his image. It is true that the Bible as a whole seems to support the traditional Christian theist view of a God out there who creates mankind according to his will and demands high standards of holiness, but a too-superficial reading of the text will tend to overlook the significance of myth and symbol, thereby missing the point that the Bible is essentially a human document expressing human concerns. Holiness, although of the essence, is not primarily a top-down affair imposed or demanded from above, but a bottom-up one which is created by, and lies at the heart of human experience. Christian fundamentalists read the Bible with black-and-white literalism, while liberals often reduce religious experience to the merely human. Smith here argues for a via media which appeals to the harmonious existence of faith and reason as the chief means of addressing mans modern existential situation.
