In God’s Image: An Anthropology of the Spirit

by Michael Welker

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 2021

Overview

From the 2019/2020 Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh.

In God’s Image describes how centering our culture on the human and divine spirit can revitalize four universally acknowledged characteristics of a thriving human existence: justice, freedom, truth, and peace. Inspired not only by religious sources, but also by scientists, philosophers, economists, and legal and political theorists, Michael Welker develops the idea of a “multimodal” spirit that generates the possibility of living and acting in the image of God.

Welker’s new approach to natural theology explains why the human and the divine spirit cannot adequately be grasped in simple bipolar relations and why the human spirit should not be reduced to the rational mind. Addressing the question What is the calling of human beings? in the context of late modern pluralistic societies, he aims at explaining to believers and non-believers alike what it means to be persons created in the image of God, moved by a spirit of justice, freedom, truth, and peace.

Key Features

• Explores themes of justice, freedom, truth, and peace
• Explains what it means to be persons created in the image of God
• Develops the idea of a “multimodal” spirit that generates the possibility of living and acting in the image of God

Contents

• Preface
• Human Beings as the Image of God? The Breadth and Abysses of Human Existence
• Human Spirit and Divine Spirit
• Called to Justice
• Called to Freedom
• Called to Truth
• Called to Peace

Product Details

• Title: In God’s Image: An Anthropology of the Spirit
• Author: Michael Welker
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Logos Release Date: 2020
• Pages: 155
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Theological anthropology; Image of God; Spirit; Holy Spirit; Human beings
• ISBNs: 9780802878663, 9780802878748, 0802878660, 0802878741
• Resource ID: LLS:GDSMGNTHRPLSPRT
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:13:16Z

About Michael Welker

Michael Welker is a German Protestant theologian and professor of Systematic theology. Biblical Theology and “general theory” are the main focus of his research. He reached a wider audience with publications about the Spirit of God, creation (especially in dialog with the sciences), the role of the church in pluralistic societies, resurrection and the Protestant view of the Lord’s Supper, but also his work related to A. N. Whitehead and process theology, to Luhmann and systems theory.