{"product_id":"a-human-shaped-god-theology-of-an-embodied-god-9780664265007","title":"A Human-Shaped God: Theology of an Embodied God","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2024 Grawemeyer Award in Religion for the best new idea in religion.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Human-Shaped God\u003c\/i\u003e approaches the humanlike accounts of God in the Old Testament as the starting places for theology and uses them to build a picture of the divine. This understanding of God is then brought into conversation with traditional conceptions that depict God as a being who knows everything that happens, is at every place at the same time, is constant and unchanging, and does not ultimately have material form. But instead of pitting the Old Testament's humanlike view of God against traditional theology and assuming that only one of these understandings is correct, A Human-Shaped God posits that theologians should embrace both of these constructions simultaneously. This is a new way of theological inquiry that embraces both the humanlike characteristics of God \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e the transcendence of God in traditional theology. By seeing and understanding the humanlike depictions of God in the Old Testament and by using the rich language of traditional theology together in tandem, the reader acquires a much deeper and meaningful understanding of God. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHalton explores \"an underappreciated view of God that exists in the Bible but is absent from most Eurocentric theology,\" said Tyler Mayfield, who directs the Grawemeyer religion award. \"His approach is original, thought-provoking and offers new opportunities for understanding the biblical God.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHalton, Charles:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCharles Halton\u003c\/strong\u003e is External Affiliate at the Centre of the Social-Scientific Study of the Bible at St. Mary's University, Twickenham. He formerly served as an assistant professor of theology at Houston Baptist University, taught Old Testament and Semitic languages at Southern Seminary, and was a fellow of the Advanced Seminar in the Humanities in Venice, Italy. He was a Founder, Managing Editor, and Director of Media for the \u003cem\u003eMarginalia Review of Books, \u003c\/em\u003ea magazine of intellectual culture and a channel of the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books. \u003c\/em\u003eHe currently serves as the editor of \u003cem\u003eGenesis: History, Fiction, or Neither? \u003c\/em\u003eand coauthor, editor, and translator (with Saana Svärd) of \u003cem\u003eWomen's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Anthology of the Earliest Female Authors. \u003c\/em\u003eHe translated the cuneiform collection of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh and has contributed to various academic journals, including the \u003cem\u003eJournal of Biblical Literature\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAncient Near Eastern Studies\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eCuneiform Digital Library Notes\u003c\/em\u003e. He has also contributed to publications including the monograph \u003cem\u003eReading Akkadian Hymns and Prayers\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry \u0026amp; Writings\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Westminster John Knox Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50630148620562,"sku":"9780664265007","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ebd053ba-95b5-445a-acc0-842e3fee8dcb.jpg?v=1732744037","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-human-shaped-god-theology-of-an-embodied-god-9780664265007","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}