A Human-Shaped God

Theology of an Embodied God

By: Charles Halton

Narrated by: William Sarris

A Human-Shaped God 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 and 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 listener acquires a much deeper and meaningful understanding of God.

©2021 Charles Halton (P)2022 Tantor

It makes me think about God very differently.

I like how the author look at God from a very different perspective then traditional Christianity.

Poorly developed arguments and faulty conclusions

Author makes an argument for human-like characteristics of God. Thr setup in the first few chapters were palatable, but then the author begins to use the shape of broken humans as a depiction of God. E.g., God struck Uzzah because when the ox tripped it rocked the ark and caused God to bump his neck, awakening him from a deep sleep, so God was angry when his sleep was disturbed? Really?!? Author misses the point that the anthromophorsms are attempting to allude to. Very disappointing