In the Eyes of God: A Contextual Approach to Biblical Anthropomorphic Metaphors: 192 (Princeton Theological Monograph)


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Description: Throughout the Bible divine interaction with humanity is portrayed in almost embarrassingly human terms. He sees hears thinks feels runs rides chariots laughs wields weapons gives birth and even repents. Many of these expressions taken at face value seem to run afoul of much classical theology including divine simplicity transcendence omniscience omnipotence omnipresence and especially immutability. Traditionally these texts have been seen as accommodations to human intellectual and moral limitations. That is they were deemed as giving God a more approachable feel but not as representing any real part of his character being or interaction with humanity. For example references to God seeing or hearing are not deemed to represent real acts as God already knows everything. However this view is largely based on an Aristotelian conception of metaphors as rhetorical devices not vehicles that carry any truth content. Since the 1970s the understanding of how metaphors convey meaning has taken great strides. These advances can help unlock how divine action--often inadvertently flattened under theological presuppositions--functions within a text. This book aims to explore the biblical metaphor of divine sight and how current understandings of metaphorical function can enrich our reading of the text and its theology.
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