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Jul 23, 2004 · Finally, against the notion of the total corruption of the imago Dei by sin, the Catholic tradition has insisted that grace and salvation would be illusory if they did not in fact transform the existing, albeit sinful, reality of human nature.
- Catechism of The Catholic Church
PROLOGUE. I. The life of man - to know and love God; II....
- Catechism of The Catholic Church
The imago Dei is the most important anthropological concept in Christian theology. However, it is mentioned only rarely in the Bible, and synthesizing the Old Testament usage in the book of Genesis with the New Testament usage in Paul is no simple or straightforward task.
The Imago Dei, Latin for “image of God”, is crucial for our understanding of who we are as the direct creation of God. Here are ten things to guide our thinking. (1) We read in Genesis 1:26 of God’s determination to create man “in our image (tselem), after our likeness (demut).”
Jan 4, 2022 · The image of God (Latin, imago dei) refers to the immaterial part of humanity. It sets human beings apart from the animal world, fits them for the dominion God intended them to have over the earth (Genesis 1:28), and enables them to commune with their Maker.
The imago Dei has become for Western theology primarily a symbol of either melancholy or disdain. For the Hebrew it was a symbol of the most intimate God -man relationship which we have called co- inherence.
- Gary Dale Peterson
- 1973
A central Pauline teaching is that in regeneration men receive the image of God. Jesus is the image and fullness of God, and men therefore receive the image of God by sharing in what Christ is. The image of God which Christians receive is really, but only partially, possessed in this life.
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For nearly two thousand years now the Christian tradition has singled out Genesis 1:26-27 for special attention.1 These biblical verses constitute the locus classicus of the doctrine of imago Dei, the notion that human beings are made in God's image.