Anthropomorphism in Christian Theology
The Apophatics of the Sensible
Series: Explorations in Philosophy and Theology;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 24 July 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350359154
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages264 pages
- Size 234x154x18 mm
- Weight 420 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 bw illus 673
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Long description:
William C. Hackett provides a renewed reading of Christian theology by evaluating the role of anthropomorphism in shaping negative theology. Through this theological history, he addresses the fear of anthropomorphism that prompted early philosophers and theologians to adopt abstract understandings of God.
Hackett charts the wide-ranging importance of anthropomorphism to theology through figures including Balthasar, Bultmann, Dionysius the Areopagite, and Cyril of Alexandria. He argues that anthropomorphism highlights the unique conceptual problem between divine presence and absence. By exploring the turn away from practical and embodied views of God in Scripture, this book focuses on anthropomorphic views of God in symbols, images, and narratives. Emphasising these forms promotes an intellectual vision of Christianity that challenges theoretical and conceptual abstraction. Anthropomorphism in Christian Theology further traces the nuances between human and angelic intellect, modern philosophy and theology, negative theology and the concept of transcendence.
Table of Contents:
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Preface
Introduction: ""To Make Tangible The Inexpressible""
1. Knowledge of the Absolute (Balthasar)
2. Anthropomorphism and the Angel: the Anthropic Principle
3. Between Contemplation and Concepts (Bultmann)
4. Anthropomorphism and Some Aspects of Modern Thought
5. Symbolical Apophatics (Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite)
6. Anthropomorphism and Negative Theology
7. The Priority of the Image in Christology (Cyril of Alexandria)
8. Anthropomorphism and Transcendence
9. Concluding Sign
Appendix: Annotations to A Few Loci Classici
Index
