{"product_id":"9781514448953","title":"In Our Image: The Human Basis of the Christian Faith","description":"The thesis of In Our Image is that the traditional Christian assertion that God made man in his image (Gen. 1: 26) has been turned on its head by Christian orthodoxy, and that it is most often the believer who makes God in his image. It is true that the Bible as a whole seems to support the traditional Christian theist view of a God ‘out there’ who creates mankind according to his will and demands high standards of holiness, but a too-superficial reading of the text will tend to overlook the significance of myth and symbol, thereby missing the point that the Bible is essentially a human document expressing human concerns. Holiness, although of the essence, is not primarily a top-down affair imposed or demanded from above, but a bottom-up one which is created by, and lies at the heart of human experience.  Christian fundamentalists read the Bible with black-and-white literalism, while liberals often reduce religious experience to the merely human. Smith here argues for a via media which appeals to the harmonious existence of faith and reason as the chief means of addressing man’s modern existential situation.","brand":"Xlibris UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47165893837040,"sku":"9781514448953","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781514448953_p0.jpg?v=1763725758","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781514448953","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}