Images, Spirituality, and Law
let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness.- Genesis 1:26[T]he honor which is paid to the image passes on to that which the image represents, and he who reveres the image reveres in it the person who is represented.- Seventh Ecumenical Council (Nicea II, 787)Technological consciousness...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1993
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Journal of law and religion
Year: 1993, Volume: 10, Issue: 1, Pages: 33-47 |
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| Summary: | let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness.- Genesis 1:26[T]he honor which is paid to the image passes on to that which the image represents, and he who reveres the image reveres in it the person who is represented.- Seventh Ecumenical Council (Nicea II, 787)Technological consciousness and libertarian doctrine reduce the material world to an instrument—or better, to an amorphous resource existing solely for those ends which we freely choose. We are trapped in matter without true form or meaning.Even for the Christian, such reduction has grave consequences. God resides in a distant heaven or in a distant time. Only after years of exile in a nature bereft of divinity can we hope, perhaps, to be rewarded with bodily salvation in a different universe. In the meantime, any spirituality we hold to must be necessarily non-material— founded in a dualistic belief in the presence of the intangible Deity whispering to our own intangible selves. We are put asunder, into godless brains and disembodied souls. |
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| ISSN: | 2163-3088 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of law and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1051167 |