... of God (Genesis 1:26). The treatment concludes that this affirmation is the clal gadol, the foundational principle of the whole Torah (as Ben Azzai says, Talmud Yerushalmi, Nedarim, ch. 9, h. 4). There are four dimensions to the image of God: (1) Intrinsic dignities—that all human...

... in the image of God—we can now begin to address whether or not Christians ought to engage in the practice. May a Christian utilize the technology of IVF with a clear conscience and may it be done with or without certain restrictions? The destruction of embryos is common, albeit not necessary and often...

... in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” The Imago Dei expresses a foundational relationship between God and man, with implications for properly appreciating basic human goods and human flourishing, which in turn have repercussions for medical...

...John F Kilner All people are significant because they are in the image of God. As documented in the recent books Dignity and Destiny ( Kilner, 2015 ) and Why People Matter ( Kilner, 2017 ), this is a powerful claim. ¹ Nowhere are its implications greater than...

... Dignity and Destiny: Humanity in the Image of God includes a discussion of the ethical treatment of disabled persons based on his view of the image of God in human beings. * Address correspondence to: Brad F. Mellon, PhD, St. Luke’s United Church of Christ, 125 North Main Street, PO Box 1335, North...

.... human dignity image of God John Calvin natural knowledge of God natural moral law Stanley Harakas Thomas Aquinas total depravity The description of human beings as created in the “image” or in “likeness” of God appears only intermittently in the Scriptures, most notably in the Old Testament...

... so as to have it conform to, but also allow it to criticize, contemporary scientific knowledge about the world and man. Bonhoeffer's rendering of the Lutheran doctrine of the two kingdoms here makes it possible to link the Christian understanding of man as “in the image of God” with the secular...

... with their secular environment, the protection of life to respect for autonomy. They thus prepare the ground for a revival of the risky concepts of the past. a life worth living autonomy ethics of care human dignity image of God National Socialist medicine protection of life undignified life Ever since...

...This chapter makes explicit the doctrine of creation which underlies the doctrine of the image of God through the analysis of the De uera religione, the Confessions, and the De Genesi ad litteram and of its difference from the doctrines of Plato...

... image of God, and not to Genesis 1 and 2 that the church must look for the peace of its corporate mind as it wrestles with gender. Life in Christ as it transforms gender is glimpsed, using four related and overlapping entities, described in Colossians as a new kingdom, a new creation, a new body...

...Theological anthropology addresses two central issues: what it is to be made in the image of God and what it is to be fallen creatures. Human agents are extraordinarily complex creatures; being made in the image of God means that they mirror the agency of God in exercising certain powers...

... dignity fall of humankind God divinity god gods image of God imago Dei soul virtue animals Incarnation of Christ John Scotus Eriugena Peter Lombard rights Robert Grosseteste Thomas Aquinas Bible capital punishment Leo the Great nature punishment Adam Augustine of Hippo free choice...

... condition (Christian anthropology), and a tradition of care for the ill, elderly, the poor, the prisoner, and the dying. The chapter sketches the Christian teaching about the human being as in the image of God, its role in the development of hospices and hospitals, and also the distinctive Augustinian...

... with the worldview at work in cosmogonies) for interpreting the imago Dei if that doctrine is not removed from this wider context. ²⁷ If being the image of God is interpreted within this well-ordered, wider context of cosmogony, the imago Dei should describe how we, too...

... consider what it means to live-into the image of God is inherently flexible. I noted in chapter two there are at least two scales on which astrobiologists conceptualize habitability: instantaneous habitability and continuous planetary habitability. I suggest we think of the imago Dei...

... account of the moving image of eternity in Timaeus. This supplies methodological and phenomenological foundations for a fully temporal interpretation of memory, understanding, and will. Neoplatonism Plotinus participation eternity image of God memory understanding...

... an account of women’s distinct but equal likeness to the image of God understood in nonmasculine terms. Sexual difference, for Wollstonecraft, consists in two biological distinctions: procreative capacities and physical strength. Neither of these necessitate sexually distinct virtues. As for the former, she...

..., is rooted in human identity as divine image bearer. To be made in the image of God is to be a creature designed to do justice. The covenant’s call to be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, likewise, reflects the original creational design that image bearers should reflect God’s creativity...

... imago theology, namely the notion that the image was lost at the Fall. Christ ‘Eastern’ vs ‘Western’ thought or Greek vs Latin Hermeneutics Image of God Origen Platonic thought Scriptural exegesis Creation Irenaeus Tertullian Adam Body Last Times Baptism Change in human nature...

... Philokalia 1782 Way of a Pilgrim The admirabile commercium adoption as children of God ‘arcs arches of theology’ Athanasios of Alexandria homoiōsis theou image of God human in κατ᾽ εἰκόνα τοῦ θεοῦ John of the Cross Paul the Apostle tantum quantum formula Carroll Lewis Incarnation language name...