EMPIRICAL RESEARCH INTO THE HUMAN IMAGES OF GOD: A Review and some Considerations

The Human Image of God

Volumn , Issue , 2021, Pages 347-360

  Van Der Lans, Jan ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.1163/9789004496941_023     Document Type: Chapter

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