In God's Image: Gender and Christianity

2004 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 448-450
Author(s):  
Kenneth C. Clatterbaugh
Keyword(s):  
God's Image

Gloriana’s “True Glorious Type”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Borris
Keyword(s):  
Faerie Queene ◽  
Elizabeth I ◽  
God's Image ◽  
Literary Narrative

Despite the centrality of Spenser’s faery queen for his Faerie Queene and its Platonically idealized mode of mimesis, most studies do not define her symbolic scope or address her transcendental implications, though the poem explicitly evokes them. Elizabeth I was typically represented as God’s image and proxy, and Spenser extrapolates Gloriana from her through Platonic idealization of the beloved (I.pr.4). Just as Gloriana never directly appears in the action and Arthur cannot find her despite his continuing searches, so she is definitively beyond representation. Her role reflects divinity’s paradoxical immanence yet transcendence in Platonic and Judeo-Christian traditions: to some extent mediated, rather as Gloriana’s agents somewhat express her nature; yet still beyond apprehension. Spenser’s engagement with these issues of theology and representation approximates Florentine Platonism’s serio-ludic “poetic theology” involving paradox, wordplay, and riddling fables. By creating this deliberately inconclusive fiction, he audaciously rejected the prevailing requirements of literary narrative so as to adumbrate sublimities beyond the ordinary scope of language.

scholarly journals Eastern Church Fathers on Being Human—Dichotomy in Essence and Wholeness in Deification

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 575
Author(s):  
Olga Chistyakova
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Church Fathers ◽  
Gregory Of Nyssa ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Christian Anthropology ◽  
Church Father ◽  
Byzantine Church ◽  
God's Image ◽  
Maximus The Confessor

The article traces the formation of Eastern Christian anthropology as a new religious and philosophical tradition within the Early Byzantine culture. The notion “Patristics” is reasoned as a corpus of ideas of the Church Fathers, both Eastern and Western. The term “Eastern Patristics” means the works by Greek-Byzantine Church Fathers, who in the theological disputes with the Western Church Fathers elaborated the Christian creed. Based on an analysis of the texts of Greek-Byzantine Church Fathers, the most important provisions of Eastern Patristics are deduced and discussed, which determined the specificity of Christian anthropology. In this context, different approaches of the Eastern Fathers to the explanation of the Old Testament thesis on the creation of man in God’s image and likeness and the justification of the duality of human essence are shown. Particular attention is paid to considering the idea of deification as overcoming the human dualism and the entire created universe, the doctrine of the Divine Logoi as God’s energies, and the potential elimination of the antinomianism of the earthly and Divine worlds. The article reflects the anthropological ideas of the pre-Nicene Church Father Irenaeus, the non-canonical early Christian work The Shepherd of Hermas, and the teachings on the man of the classical Eastern Patristics period by Athanasius of Alexandria, Gregory of Nyssa, and Maximus the Confessor.

Michael Welker, In God’s Image: An Anthropology of the Spirit

Theology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 124 (6) ◽  
pp. 444-445
Author(s):  
George Newlands
Keyword(s):  
God's Image

Towards an Integrated Theology of Youth

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Graham D. Stanton
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
Prophetic Voice ◽  
Theological Perspective ◽  
God's Image ◽  
Made In

Abstract This article summarises eight theological perspectives on youth and young people. Young people are variously seen as (1) sinful creatures in need of redemption; (2) gifts of God and sources of joy; (3) developing beings in need of guidance and instruction; (4) open to conversion; (5) vulnerable to exploitation; (6) fully human, made in God’s image; (7) a prophetic presence; and (8) a prophetic voice. Rather than simply affirm all 8 perspectives as important, an integrated theological perspective on youth views young people within the distinctive features of their created reality, with particular strengths and assets along with distinct needs and deficits, to be fully capable as bearers of the divine image, and with emerging capability as social agents.

Christian-Muslim Cooperation Demonstrating God’s Image/Caliph in Ecotheology

2018 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 661-678
Author(s):  
Sayed Hassan Akhlaq
Keyword(s):  
God's Image

God's Image and Egalitarian Politics

2004 ◽  
pp. 310-321
Author(s):  
George P. Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
God's Image

scholarly journals A Life with Limits: A Christian Ethical Investigation of Radically Prolonging Human Lifespans

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manitza Kotzé
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Life Extension ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Social Divisions ◽  
Human Lifespan ◽  
Relational Concept ◽  
God's Image ◽  
Radical Life Extension

Recent biotechnological advances pose topical challenges to Christian ethics. One such development is the attempt to try and enhance human beings and what it means to be human, also through radical life extension. In this contribution I am especially interested in limited human lifespan and attempts to radically prolong it. Although there are a number of ethical issues raised by critics, one of the most profound ethical and theological issues raised by these efforts is the question of equity and justice. This artice looks at questions such as whether this biotechnology could exacerbate existing social divisions. Who will be experimented on in the development of this technology, as well as who will have access to it and be able to afford it, should it become commercially available? Being created in God’s image is a relational concept, referring not only to humanity’s relationship with God, but also with each other. Disrupting these relationships through the possible enlarging socioeconomic divisions between people through the utilisation of enhancement technology is a serious bioethical and theological question.

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