God's Body: Jewish, Christian, and Pagan Images of God

by Christoph Markschies

God is unbounded. God became flesh.

While these two assertions are equally viable parts of Western Christian religious heritage, they stand in tension with one another. Fearful of reducing God's majesty with shallow anthropomorphisms, philosophy and religion affirm that God, as an eternal being, stands wholly apart from creation. Yet the legacy of the incarnation complicates this view of the incorporeal divine, affirming a very different...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1481311689
• ISBN13: 9781481311687
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Length: 632 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.6" x 9.4"