scholarly journals An Image of God for the Future of Europe

2021 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-41
Author(s):  
João Manuel Duque
Keyword(s):  
European Society ◽  
Image Of God ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Political Effects ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Image Of God

The article intends to explore the possible impact of the image of God originated in Judaism and Christianity on some elements of the configuration of Europe, in an essentially cultural perspective, although with also political effects. It is not intended to assess this impact only within Christian or Jewish communities, that is, in relation to the believers of these religious traditions. It is intended to extend this impact to European society, as such, since the effect of this image of God can also refer to non-believers, especially in the way they interpret their daily lives and their social structures. It is not, therefore, about the recovery of a theocratic system, but about the possibility of effects of the reference to God, as if God did not exist.

scholarly journals The Understanding of God’s Image by Anthony Hoekema

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 2084-2089
Author(s):  
Reymand Hutabarat ◽  
Franklin Hutabarat ◽  
Deanna Beryl Majilang
Keyword(s):  
Distinctive Feature ◽  
Image Of God ◽  
Reformed Theology ◽  
The Core ◽  
Christian Anthropology ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Functional Aspects ◽  
The Future ◽  
God's Image ◽  
The Image Of God

Introduction : Anthony Hoekema was active in his works as a preacher, teacher, and writer.[1] He is one of the most outstanding reformed theologians which authored several books such as Created in God’s Image, The Four Major Cults, What About Tongue-Speaking? The Bible and the Future, and Saved By Grace.   Method : Hoekema’s theology as a whole is a reformed theology. The core and the very foundation of reformed theology is the sovereignty of God. Hoekema sees that the creation of man in God’s image is “the most distinctive feature of a biblical understanding of man.” This is why he understands that “the concept of the image of God is the heart of Christian anthropology.”   Result & Discussion : His concept of the image of God in man is examined in this section, which is divided into the following five parts: the meaning of being created in the image of God, the structural and functional aspects of God’s image, Jesus as the true image of God, the image of God in man’s threefold relationship, and the image of God in four different stages.    

Transhumanism and the Image of God. Today’s Technology and the Future of Christian Discipleship

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-96
Author(s):  
Yannick Imbert
Keyword(s):  
Image Of God ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Guiding Principles ◽  
Christian Discipleship ◽  
Key Indicators ◽  
The Image Of God ◽  
Cette Question

SUMMARYWhat does it mean for Christians to live in a highly technologised world? In this book, Jacob Shatzer searches for an answer. First, Christians have to answer these crucial questions: What is technology? What is its impact on our lives and on the world? Second, Shatzer gives some key indicators and guiding principles, framed in terms of Christian discipleship. This is a clear and useful book.RÉSUMÉQu’implique pour les chrétiens de vivre dans un monde où la technologie est omniprésente ? Jacob Shatzer tente de répondre à cette question. Tout d’abord, les chrétiens doivent s’interroger sur la nature de la technologie et sur l’impact des produits des techniques sur notre vie et sur le monde. Puis il propose des indicateurs clés et des principes directeurs, en vue d’une vie de disciple chrétien.ZUSAMMENFASSUNGWas bedeutet es für Christen, in einer hoch technologisierten Welt zu leben? In diesem Buch sucht Jacob Shatzer nach einer Antwort. Zuerst müssen Christen diese wichtigen Fragen beantworten: Was ist Technologie? Was macht ihren Einfluss auf unser Leben und unsere Welt aus? Zweitens gibt der Autor einige Schlüsselindikatoren und Richtlinien im Rahmen christlicher Jüngerschaft. Dies stellt ein klares und hilfreiches Book dar.

The Face of God in Suffering

2005 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-17
Author(s):  
Olga Yaqob
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Image Of God ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Human Faces ◽  
The Image Of God ◽  
Made In

Media coverage of Iraq generally has overlooked the daily lives of ordinary Iraqis. In all the wars Iraq has endured since 1980, we have lost sight of human faces. Every nation is its people, not merely its geographic territory, and these people are all made in the image of God. The illustrations accompanying this article include both images of Iraq's geography (the land) and an image, in the shape of Iraq, formed out of the faces of many different ordinary Iraqi people, from all different religious and geographical areas of the country. In the center of this image is the face of Jesus on the cross. In the suffering of the Iraqi people, I have seen the face of God.

The Future of Catholicism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Luc Marion
Keyword(s):  
Image Of God ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Ethical Role ◽  
The Image Of God ◽  
The Church ◽  
Object Of Knowledge

Catholicism has an ethical role in contemporary culture as raising questions about norms and practices in order to preserve the dignity of the human being. The Church must give the Word (Christ) to the world. Man as absolute principle (in Descartes, Kant, and Hegel) becomes a means to an end. The “I” treated as absolute subject of knowledge becomes an object. The I cannot be the source of values or knowledge (man reverts to himself); this devalues the I. Man transcends man. Instead of objectifying man as an object of knowledge, we must “recognize” man as created in the image of God (which assures man’s essential unknowability). Christians must “keep the vigil of the unknowable.”

scholarly journals Foreshadowing the Future of Capitalism: Surveillance Technology and Digital Realism in Xu Bing’s Dragonfly Eyes

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (14) ◽  
pp. 62-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ling Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Social Alienation ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Surveillance Technology ◽  
Total View ◽  
The Future ◽  
Xu Bing

How has the development of surveillance technology and its normalized intervention into our social structures and daily lives impact our imagination of the future? Does the “total view” of the intense yet impassive gaze of surveillance cameras, combined with the mediated intimacy of social media videos, foreshadow deeper social alienation or the fulfillment of individual desire? In order to address such questions, I take the Chinese artist Xu Bing and his team’s film Dragonfly Eyes (Qingting zhi yan, 2017) and its surrounding media culture as a case study to demonstrate how surveillance footage and various modes of cinematic ontology, digital realism, and temporality work in a contemporary socio-political-medial context. Composed by Xu and a group of collaborators, Dragonfly Eyes is the only existing feature-length fiction film constructed completely from surveillance footage. As a highly reflexive film, Dragonfly epitomizes and embodies the precarious potentials of the digital future of capitalism, both invigorating and bleak, expressive and corrupt.

THE IMAGE OF GOD, CHRISTIAN RIGHTS TALK, AND THE SCHOOL OF SALAMANCA

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Lantigua
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Image Of God ◽  
Natural Rights ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
School Of Salamanca ◽  
Theological Challenge ◽  
Francisco De Vitoria ◽  
The Image Of God

AbstractThe salience of rights talk in Western cultures has generated constructive responses from various religious traditions. This article contributes to this religious hermeneutic by turning to the first-generation Spanish theologians of the sixteenth-century School of Salamanca, Francisco de Vitoria and Domingo de Soto, as important resources for Christian rights talk. These late scholastic thinkers made the image of God doctrine, as transmitted by Thomas Aquinas, the basis for affirming the worth and human natural rights of Amerindian peoples. To highlight the contemporary relevance of the school, the article engages Nicholas Wolterstorff's recent work on rights and his twofold critique of a capacities approach to human dignity and a virtues approach to justice. The School of Salamanca not only addresses the important concerns raised by Wolterstorff but uniquely offers a view of rights inextricably linked to human capacities and Christian virtue that highlights both the patient and agential dimensions of justice. They provide a critical theological challenge to the dominant secular liberal view of rights in a way that Wolterstorff's account does not.

Persons Together

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan L. Mittleman
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Image Of God ◽  
Jewish Tradition ◽  
The Political ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
Market Relations ◽  
The Image Of God

This chapter moves into the political and economic aspects of human nature. Given scarcity and interdependence, what sense has Judaism made of the material well-being necessary for human flourishing? What are Jewish attitudes toward prosperity, market relations, labor, and leisure? What has Judaism had to say about the political dimensions of human nature? If all humans are made in the image of God, what does that original equality imply for political order, authority, and justice? In what kinds of systems can human beings best flourish? It argues that Jewish tradition shows that we act in conformity with our nature when we elevate, improve, and sanctify it. As co-creators of the world with God, we are not just the sport of our biochemistry. We are persons who can select and choose among the traits that comprise our very own natures, cultivating some and weeding out others.

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