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008			121106t20122012enk b 001 0 eng d
020			_a9781565645752
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050	0	4	_aBL215 _b.A584 2012
050	0	4	_aBL215
100	1		_aShah, Zulfiqar Ali, _e1
245	1	0	_aAnthropomorphic depictions of God : _bthe concept of God in Judaic, Christian and Islamic traditions : representing the unrepresentable / _cZulfiqar Ali Shah.
246	3	0	_aConcept of God in Judaic, Christian and Islamic traditions
246	3	0	_aGod
260			_aLondon ; _aWashington : _bInternational Institute of Islamic Thought, _c(c)2012.
300			_axxxv, 727 pages ; _c23 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_a1 (pages 669-708) and index.
505	0	0	_a1. ANTHROPOMORPHISM: BACKGROUND, CRITICISM, AND DelawareFINING CaliforniaTEGORIES -- _tAnthropomorphism -- _tIncarnation -- _tTranscendence -- _tTranscendence: A philosophical interpretation immanence
505	0	0	_a2. TRANSCENDENTAL AND ANTHROPOMORPHIC TENDENCIES Indiana THE HEBREW BIBLE -- _tThe Bible: An introduction -- _tThe "Law" or the "Torah": significance and authority -- _tContemporary Jews and the authority of the Torah -- _tReform or progressive Judaism -- _tConservative Judaism -- _tThe Hebrew Bible and Christianity -- _tThe Marcionist response -- _tThe official response -- _tThe liberalist response -- _tAuthority in Christianity -- _tConclusion -- _tThe Hebrew Bible and the transcendence of God -- _tThe unity of God and the Hebrew Bible -- _tAnthropomorphism and the Hebrew Bible -- _tAnthropomorphism and the Rabbinic mind.
520	0		_aThis monumental study examines issues of anthropomorphism in the three Abrahamic Faiths, as viewed through the texts of the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and the Qur an. Throughout history Christianity and Judaism have tried to make sense of God. While juxtaposing the Islamic position against this, the author addresses the Judeo-Christian worldview and how each has chosen to framework its encounter with God, to what extent this has been the result of actual scripture and to what extent the product of theological debate, or church decrees of later centuries and absorption of Hellenistic philosophy. _bShah also examines Islam s heavily anti-anthropomorphic stance and Islamic theological discourse on Tawhid as well as the Ninety-Nine Names of God and what these have meant in relation to Muslim understanding of God and His attributes. Describing how these became the touchstone of Muslim discourse with Judaism and Christianity he critiques theological statements and perspectives that came to dilute if not counter strict monotheism. As secularism debates whether God is dead, the issue of anthropomorphism has become of immense importance. The quest for God, especially in this day and age, is partly one of intellectual longing. To Shah, anthropomorphic concepts and corporeal depictions of the Divine are perhaps among the leading factors of modern atheism. As such he ultimately draws the conclusion that the postmodern longing for God will not be quenched by pre-modern anthropomorphic and corporeal concepts of the Divine which have simply brought God down to this cosmos, with a precise historical function and a specified location, reducing the intellectual and spiritual force of what God is and represents, causing the soul to detract from a sense of the sacred and thereby belief in Him. _c~ Amazon: _uamazon.com/Anthropomorphic-Depictions-God-Representing-Unrepresentable/dp/1565645758/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=9781565645752&qid=1593550715&s=books&sr=1-1
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650		0	_aAnthropomorphism.
650		0	_aImage of God.
942			_cREF _hBL _m2012 _i2020-06-17 _2ddc _w49.99
948			_hHELD BY SBI - 38 OTHER HOLDINGS
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell