Is God a Body?: Isaiah, Divine Dissimilitude, and Scriptural Signification

In light of recent biblical scholarship claiming that the God of the Hebrew Bible has a body, this article investigates how Aquinas reads Isaiah’s description of God in embodied, anthropomorphic terms in 6, 1 (I saw the Lord sitting on a throne high and lifted up, etc.) in tandem with the prophet’s...

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Main Author: Harkins, Franklin T. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sciendo 2023
In: European journal for the study of Thomas Aquinas
Year: 2023, Volume: 41, Issue: 1, Pages: 44-61
IxTheo Classification:HB Old Testament
KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages
NBC Doctrine of God
NBE Anthropology
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