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Anthropomorphic language has provided a conundrum for exegetes and theologians for millennia. Attempting to use human language to describe the divine presents ontological and epistemological problems that push our speech to the breaking point.
In this new work, Howell shows that instances of divine action should not automatically be reduced simply to theological categories such as omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence, immutability, etc., nor to criteria such as personhood, life, and approachability. Rather, he introduced readers to two unique approaches to “anthropomorphic expressions”.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Approaching Biblical Anthropomorphic Language
2 Approaching Divine Metaphors
3 Theomorphism
4 Seeing Good and Evil -Genesis 1-3
5 God, the Sons of God, and the Man of God
6 A View to Judgment -Genesis 11:5
7 Status and Blessing in the Sight of God -Genesis 16
8 A Second Look at Sodom -Genesis 18:1-19:29
9 The Mountain with a View -Genesis 22
10 Conclusion
Appendix A: Exegesis of Genesis 16:13-14
Appendix B: The Righteousness of Lot
Appendix C: Testing
Bibliography
1 Approaching Biblical Anthropomorphic Language
2 Approaching Divine Metaphors
3 Theomorphism
4 Seeing Good and Evil -Genesis 1-3
5 God, the Sons of God, and the Man of God
6 A View to Judgment -Genesis 11:5
7 Status and Blessing in the Sight of God -Genesis 16
8 A Second Look at Sodom -Genesis 18:1-19:29
9 The Mountain with a View -Genesis 22
10 Conclusion
Appendix A: Exegesis of Genesis 16:13-14
Appendix B: The Righteousness of Lot
Appendix C: Testing
Bibliography