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

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

Open Access
|Oct 2023

Abstract

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 denial that God is like any creature in 40, 18 (To whom have you likened God? Or what image will you make for Him?). We seek to show that, according to Aquinas, Is. 6, 1 teaches not that God has or is a body, but rather that He is not.

Language: English
Page range: 44 - 61
Submitted on: Jul 22, 2023
Accepted on: Sep 19, 2023
Published on: Oct 30, 2023
Published by: Thomas Institute of Utrecht
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2023 Franklin T. Harkins, published by Thomas Institute of Utrecht
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