Spirit and Reason : the Embodied Character of Ezekiel's Symbolic World.
By comparing and contrasting the pictures gained from Greek and Mesopotamian cities with Ezekiels Jerusalem, Launderville masterfully shows how Ezekiel fosters a type of symbolic thinking focused on making the Israelites into living symbols of God. The Spirit is the reality that connects humans with...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Waco :
Baylor University Press,
2007.
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| Summary: | By comparing and contrasting the pictures gained from Greek and Mesopotamian cities with Ezekiels Jerusalem, Launderville masterfully shows how Ezekiel fosters a type of symbolic thinking focused on making the Israelites into living symbols of God. The Spirit is the reality that connects humans with the cosmic order and enables the workings of the human heartthe place within which reason functions, according to ancient Israelite anthropology. Ezekiels symbolic thinking is an integrative rationality in which the reason is regarded as operating within the heart through the empowerment and gui. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (434 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781602580893 1602580898 1602580057 9781602580053 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |