Images of God

Catalog description

This course will introduce students to the Bible's figurative language for God. The aim is to expand our imagination about who God is (and who we, as bearers of God's image, and friends and disciples of God). We will ask: How do people's images of God—and their resulting images of themselves (sheep? vassals?)—invite them to become (or interfere with their becoming) the people God means us to be? How do images of God help readers of the Bible greet one another as bearers of the image of God? How do we pray to the God who is clothing or fire? Or dog? How does the God who is clothing or fire pray in us?