Images of the Divine and Cultural Orientations: Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Voices

by Michael Welker

This innovative volume explores the "iconic problem" in the Abrahamic religions and how it can provide cultural orientation for religious and non-religious people. This "problem" is the presence of two opposed injunctions present in these religions: the prohibition of the making of images and yet the proliferation of images of God within these traditions. In an age shaped by a whirlwind of images - some peaceful; some violent - of peoples through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3374041094
• ISBN13: 9783374041091
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.