Seeing and not Seeing the Face of God: Overcoming the Law of Contradiction in Biblical Theology
This paper attempts to illuminate and interpret the contradictory portrait of God as both seen and unseen in the Torah. Thus Moses is commanded not to look on the face of God yet also praised for having spoken to God “face to face". We seek ways to reconcile the contradictory portraits of God t...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham
[2020]
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European journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 12, Issue: 2, Pages: 133-147 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Old Testament
/ Moses
/ God
/ Face
/ Invisibility
/ Gelman, Yehudah 1940-
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism HB Old Testament NBC Doctrine of God |
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| Summary: | This paper attempts to illuminate and interpret the contradictory portrait of God as both seen and unseen in the Torah. Thus Moses is commanded not to look on the face of God yet also praised for having spoken to God “face to face". We seek ways to reconcile the contradictory portraits of God through the use of the term “doubled-mindedness” in the theology of Jerome Gellman, in the logic of “thirdness” in C.S. Peirce’s semiotics, and in the use of both particle and wave models in Einstein’s physics of light. The paper concludes by disusing the practical consequences of theological double-mindedness for the religious life and the philosophical meaning of redemption as the time when the contradiction of the unseen and seen God is resolved. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: European journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.v12i2.3312 |