The Redeemed Image of God: Embodied Relations to the Unknown Divine

by Susan Windley-Daoust

Overview

The Redeemed Image of God examines the classical development of imago Dei, the image of God, in Christian theology, and reconstructs the doctrine in order to recover the role of the image in redemption and the importance of human embodiment in salvific relationships. The author argues that the imago Dei is the point of contact that enables a rich web of relationships to others, but most importantly the redemptive relationship to the Other, God. From this perspective, not only can the imago Dei be saved, but the imago Dei is essential in saving us. Windley-Daoust retrieves the deep classical meaning of the Image of God as redemptive point of contact and addresses the wholistic worldview of our century through dialogue with existential phenomenologists Gabriel Marcel and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. This contemporary reconstruction of the image of God theology fully values the Incarnation as enabling redemption, and the human body as touchstone to the transcendent. This is a new vision of the imago Dei, and a theologically suggestive understanding of the human as embodied spirit.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761824398
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	12/28/2002
Pages:	166
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.48(h) x 0.43(d)

About the Author

Susan Windley-Daoust is Assistant Professor of Theology, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Can the Classical Imago Dei Be Saved? Chapter 3 Perception: What Does it Mean to Be? Chapter 4 Participation: What Does it Mean to Be Redeemed? Chapter 5 Participation: What Does it Mean to Be Like God? Chapter 6 An Introduction to an Embodied Philosophy Chapter 7 Perception, Disclosure, and Yearning Chapter 8 How Incarnation Enables Participation: The Relational Imago Chapter 9 To Express God's Love: Zoe as Redemptive Place of Contact Chapter 10 Notes Chapter 11 Index