Portraits of God: Word Pictures of the Deity from the Earliest Times Through Today

By Louis Baldwin

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated--Voltaire. God is love--1 John 4:8Portraits 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0899501982
• ISBN13: 9780899501987
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: McFarland Publishing
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.