Portraits of God: Word Pictures of the Deity from the Earliest Times Through Today
| AUTHOR | Baldwin, Louis |
| PUBLISHER | McFarland & Company (11/11/2011) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Paperback (Paperback) |
"God is love"--1 John 4:8
Portraits of God painted with words have ranged from prehistoric conceptions of the Earth Mother to more elaborate sophisticated visions: God as craftsman, a multiple deity, an illusion, one's highest self, the Omega point.... This book presents sixty-some selections, including many fascinating exchanges in the 16th-19th centuries that constitute the main body of modern Western philosophy, religious or otherwise.
"God is love"--1 John 4:8
Portraits of God painted with words have ranged from prehistoric conceptions of the Earth Mother to more elaborate sophisticated visions: God as craftsman, a multiple deity, an illusion, one's highest self, the Omega point.... This book presents sixty-some selections, including many fascinating exchanges in the 16th-19th centuries that constitute the main body of modern Western philosophy, religious or otherwise.