Humanity in God's image: an interdisciplinary exploration

Contents

Introduction: imago Dei and the dialectics of in-visibility -- Deictic references to the invisible: the imago Dei as a complex sign pointing beyond itself -- Subjectivity of seeing: the imago Dei as self-interpreting image -- Resonating and reflecting the divine: the imago Dei as God-revealing humanity in Jewish theology, philosophy, and poetry -- Divine-human (dis-)similarity: freedom, sin, and relational ontology in Reformation theology -- Likeness to God in love and suffering: imagination, identification, and religious reorientation -- Glory from elsewhere: the human being as embodied image of God -- Imago Dei and crimes against humanity: biblical and post-Holocaust perspectives on an ethics of in-visibility -- Imago Dei and human dignity: reciprocal regard and an unfulfilled demand -- Conclusion: vision and speech.