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Explores the role of dreams in spiritual work.

Dreams --- Religious aspects. --- Image of God. --- God --- God, Image of --- Image (Theology) --- Theological anthropology --- Image

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A statuette of Egyptian King Pepi formidably wielding a shepherd's crook stands in stark contrast to a fresco of an unassuming Orpheus-like youth gently hoisting a sheep around his shoulders. Both images, however, occupy an extensive tradition of shepherding motifs. In the transition from ancient Near Eastern depictions of the keeper of flocks as one holding great power to the more "pastoral" scenes of early Christian art, it might appear that connotations of rulership were divested from the image of the shepherd. The reality, however, presents a much more complex tapestry. The Good Shepherd: Image, Meaning, and Power traces the visual and textual depictions of the Good Shepherd motif from its early iterations as a potent symbol of kingship, through its reimagining in biblical figures, such as the shepherd-king David, and onward to the shepherds of Greco-Roman literature. Jennifer Awes Freeman reveals that the figure of the Good Shepherd never became humble or docile but always carried connotations of empire, divinity, and defensive violence even within varied sociopolitical contexts. The early Christian invocation of the Good Shepherd was not simply anti-imperial but relied on a complex set of associations that included king, priest, pastor, and sacrificial victim--even as it subverted those meanings in the figure of Jesus, both shepherd and sacrificial lamb. The concept of the Good Shepherd continued to prove useful for early medieval rulers, such as Charlemagne, but its imperial references waned in the later Middle Ages as it became more exclusively applied to church leaders. Drawing on a range of sources including literature, theological treatises, and political texts, as well as sculpture, mosaics, and manuscript illuminations, The Good Shepherd offers a significant contribution as the first comprehensive study of the long history of the Good Shepherd motif. It also engages the flexible and multivalent abilities of visual and textual symbols to convey multiple meanings in religious and political contexts.

Iconography --- iconography --- religious art --- Bible stories --- Jesus Christ --- Shepherds in art --- Christian art and symbolism --- Image (Theology) --- History --- Art. --- Christian art and symbolism. --- History. --- Jesus Christ. --- Jezus

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What are the implications of a client's image of God?Improve your confidence?and your practice skills?by enhancing your knowledge of how individuals are likely to perceive God, and of how those perceptions impact the way they function as human beings. Theologians have long speculated and theorized about how humans imagine God to be. This book merges theology with science, presenting empirical research focused on perceptions of God in a variety of populations living in community and mental health settings. Each chapter concludes with references that comprise an essential reading lis

God (Christianity) --- Image of God. --- Pastoral counseling. --- Care of souls --- Counseling, Pastoral --- Cure of souls --- Counseling --- Pastoral psychology --- Pastoral care --- Spiritual direction --- God --- God, Image of --- Image (Theology) --- Theological anthropology --- Christianity --- Trinity --- Religious aspects --- Image

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Globalization has raised numerous questions about theology and culture for Christians. How should we respond to outsourcing and immigration? How does anti-Western sentiment affect the proclamation of the gospel? What is the role of the church in society? This book argues that Christians will be most fulfilled and most effective if they embrace their cultural activity rather than feel ambivalent about it. The central question of this book is, how does bearing God's image relate to cultural activity? Nehrbass explains that "spheres of culture," such as political, technological, and social structures, are systems that God has instilled in humans as his image bearers, so that they can glorify and enjoy him forever. Therefore, a theology of culture involves recognizing that the kingdom of God encompasses heaven and Earth, rather than pitting heaven against Earth. The text surveys anthropological explanations for humanity's dependence on culture, and shows that each explanation provides only partial explanatory scope. The most satisfying explanation is that a major functional aspect of bearing God's image is engaging in culture, since the Trinity has been eternally engaged in cultural functions like ruling, communicating, and creating. Each chapter contains a summary and questions about what it means to be a world-changer in the twenty-first century. --

Christianity and culture. --- Multiculturalism --- Image of God. --- God --- God, Image of --- Image (Theology) --- Theological anthropology --- Contextualization (Christian theology) --- Culture and Christianity --- Inculturation (Christian theology) --- Indigenization (Christian theology) --- Culture --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Image

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This book, newly revised and updated, examines the Eastern Church's theology of icons chiefly on the basis of the acta of the Seventh Ecumenical Council of 787. The political circumstances leading to the outbreak of the iconclast controversy in the eighth century are discussed in detail, but the main emphasis is on the theological arguments and assumptions of the council participants. Major themes include the nature of tradition, the relationship between image and reality, and the place of christology. Ultimately the argument over icons was about the accessibility of the divine. Icons were held by the iconophiles to communicate a deifying grace which raised the believer to participation in the life of God.

Orthodox Eastern Church --- Doctrines --- Council of Nicaea (2nd : 787) --- Icons --- Cult --- History of doctrines --- Middle Ages, 500-1500 --- Image (Theology) --- Iconoclasm --- Iconoclasm. --- Idols and images --- Christian art and symbolism --- Communication --- Eikons --- Ikons --- Christian saints in art --- History --- Worship --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Doctrines. --- Council of Nicaea --- Concilio niceno --- Convegno niceno --- Council of Nicaea, --- Konzil von Nizäa