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Theological Anthropology and Anthropological Theology in the Book of Ezekiel
C. A. Strine, Secretary for Theology and Theological Adviser to the House of Bishops
The Imago Dei Series. A series of Lectures and Events on theological anthropology, in preparation for Pusey House's Conference Restoring the Image.
Three issues have dominated discussion of anthropology in the book of Ezekiel: the traumatic experience of involuntary migration to Babylonia; the capacity or incapacity of humans to act correctly of their own volition; and the role of the imago Dei concept in Ezekiel’s understanding of human beings. Unlike existing work, this paper will integrate these three topics into a single argument. These three foci, when woven together, indicate that the book of Ezekiel holds an optimistic view of human capacity to act correctly, which is separate from the imago Dei concept, but still thoroughly theological. Furthermore, the book projects these human features onto YHWH, resulting in a divine figure who closely resembles the human ideal advocated in the book. Ezekiel, in short, contains a theological anthropology and an anthropological theology.

When:
27 May 2025
4:00 pm
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