The social God and the relational self : a trinitarian theology of the Imago Dei /

Grenz, Stanley J. 1950-2005.

The social God and the relational self : a trinitarian theology of the Imago Dei / Stanley J. Grenz. - xii, 345 pages ; 24 cm. - Matrix of Christian theology ; [1] .

Series information on dust jacket and in preface ("... first of a series ... of six volumes ..." p. [ix]).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The context : Trinitarian theology and the self. From the one subject to the three persons : the renewal of Trinitarian theology ; From interiority to psychotherapy : an archeology of the self ; From autobiography to preference : the undermining of the self -- The texts : the imago Dei in Trinitarian perspective. From structure to destiny : the imago Dei in Christian theology ; From humankind to the true human : the imago Dei and biblico Christo-anthropology ; From eschatological hope to ongoing task : the imago Dei and the new humanity -- The application : the social imago and the postmodern (loss of) self. From the eternal city to the primordial garden : the imago Dei and human sexuality ; From the many to the one : the reconstruction of the self-in-community.

The first of a six-volume contribution to systematic theology, this text extends the insights of contemporary Trinitarian thought to theological anthropology. It develops a communal understanding of the "imago deli" in the face of the demise of the centred self.

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Image of God.
Theological anthropology--Christianity.
Self--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Trinity.

BT702 / .G74 2001

ARCH YNDC 231.04 G828S

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