Presence of the numinous: the development of the archetype of the shekinah
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Authors
Compton, Madonna
Issue Date
1991
Type
Thesis
Language
en
Keywords
Religious studies
Alternative Title
Abstract
I do not believe that the maternal face of God which came to be developed in the image of the Shekinah was simply the result of foreign goddesses imported from neighboring countries. Rather, she began as conceptualized divine attributes of a monotheistic God and eventually became a personification in her own right. This process we will call hypostatization, following the dictionary definition "to attribute real identity to a concept."