From Image to Likeness. The Christian Journey into God

SIMPSON, WILLIAM A.

ISBN 10: 0826410162 / ISBN 13: 9780826410160

Published by Continuum Books, New York, 1997

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8vo, 156pp. Very good cloth. Clean and tight.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: From Image to Likeness. The Christian Journey into God
• Publisher: Continuum Books, New York
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826410162
• ISBN 13: 9780826410160
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Edition Not Stated.
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Book
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Synopsis

Under the influence of Augustine, many Christian spiritualities dwell on human weakness and recommend a passive response to grace. According to such spiritualities, the most important fact about human beings is that we are sinners in need of salvation. In From Image to Likeness, William Simpson suggests that our human natures are unfinished and that the Christian spiritual journey finds its fullest expression when one's life reflects God's creative and sustaining activity. We are already bearers of the divine image because we are God's creatures, and we resemble that from which we came. We grow into the divine likeness as we cooperate with grace and begin to manifest God's presence in the world.By emphasizing the incarnational aspects of the Christian message, Simpson offers a traditionally rooted alternative to these Augustinian spiritualities. Here, the spiritual journey emerges not as a flight from one's wounded and corrupt nature, but as the ongoing discovery of one's true nature as a child of God.

About the Authors

William A. Simpson teaches at the University of Colorado at Denver and Metropolitan State College.

William A. Simpson was born in Denver, Colorado. He received his Ph.D. in Greek Philosophy from the University of Colorado at Boulder and teaches at the University of Colorado at Denver, and Metropolitan State College.