Imagining God: Who Is Created in Whose Image?
Evidence is presented of a correspondence between images of God and images of self among a sample of 185 residents of a Midwestern university town. Respondents' God-images follow the well-established pattern of a two-dimensional characterization of the godhead as both nurturing and disciplining...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1989
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Review of religious research
Year: 1989, Volume: 30, Issue: 4, Pages: 375-386 |
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| Summary: | Evidence is presented of a correspondence between images of God and images of self among a sample of 185 residents of a Midwestern university town. Respondents' God-images follow the well-established pattern of a two-dimensional characterization of the godhead as both nurturing and disciplining. Although the analysis provides support for self-esteem theory, this and other projection theories of the development of divine images do not explain why these two dimensions have been recurrently found in the literature. A variety of theoretical arguments are given that portray social processes potentially involved in the emergence of the nurturing and disciplining images. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3511298 |