What Really Matters: Reflections on God, Matter, Life, and Love
For millennia, two divine acts of creation – of the material world out of nothing physical and of humanity in God’s image – have been central to biblical faith. Bearing the image of God, in particular, has been seen within Judaism and Christianity as the fundamental ground of human worth and inviola...
| Subtitles: | Recht und Religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2023
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| In: |
Jahrbuch für biblische Theologie
Year: 2022, Volume: 37, Pages: 387-412 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Creation
/ Image of God
/ Creation account (Genesis)
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| IxTheo Classification: | NBA Dogmatics NBD Doctrine of Creation |
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| Summary: | For millennia, two divine acts of creation – of the material world out of nothing physical and of humanity in God’s image – have been central to biblical faith. Bearing the image of God, in particular, has been seen within Judaism and Christianity as the fundamental ground of human worth and inviolability, what really matters ethically. How the two main acts or moments of creation bear on each other has been hard to specify, however, as has in what the imago Dei consists and how and when it comes to be. I address in this essay the complex relation between physics and ethics, anthropology and theology. More specifically, I explore the various senses of the word “matter” and how it evolves into the divine likeness capable of agapic love. In the process, I gesture toward a theological reunification of facts and values. |
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| ISSN: | 2567-9392 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Jahrbuch für biblische Theologie
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.13109/9783666500398.387 |