Embodied, Relational, Desiring, Vulnerable – Reconsidering Imago Dei
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Jan-Olav Henriksen
Summary
God is always experienced in the mode of representations. The fundamental representation of God is Jesus Christ, the true image of God. In order to specify this designation further, with reference to all of humanity, it is suggested that the basic features of such representation can be identified in the features of desire and vulnerability, as manifestations of interconnectedness and dependence. These features are not only expressing themselves as that with which humans need to come to terms, but they also manifest the deeply relational character of humanity and its internal connection to goodness. They also make it possible to specify further how God and the human being are intrinsically connected, and make it possible to see why love is so important in the realization of imago Dei: It is love that secures that both desire and vulnerability can contribute to human flourishing, and thus precludes sin from manifesting itself.
Zusammenfassung
Gott wird immer im Modus von Repräsentation erfahren. Der fundamentale Repräsentant Gottes ist Jesus Christus, das wahre Bild Gottes. Um diese Bezeichnung unter Bezugnahme auf die gesamte Menschheit näher zu spezifizieren, wird vorgeschlagen, die Grundmerkmale einer solchen Repräsentation in den Merkmalen der Begierde und der Verletzlichkeit als Manifestationen von Verbundenheit und Abhängigkeit zu identifizieren. Diese Merkmale drücken sich nicht nur als das aus, womit sich der Mensch auseinandersetzen muss, sondern sie manifestieren auch den zutiefst relationalen Charakter der Menschheit und ihre innere Verbindung zum Guten. Sie ermöglichen es auch, weiter zu spezifizieren, wie Gott und der Mensch in sich verbunden sind, und zu erkennen, warum Liebe bei der Verwirklichung der imago Dei so wichtig ist: Es ist die Liebe, die sicherstellt, dass sowohl Begierde als auch Verletzlichkeit zum menschlichen Gedeihen beitragen können, und so die Sünde daran hindert, sich zu manifestieren.
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- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Embodied, Relational, Desiring, Vulnerable – Reconsidering Imago Dei
- Christian Ethics, Lutheran Tradition, and Pluralistic Society
- Erasmus versus Luther: A Contemporary Analysis of the Debate on Free Will
- The rationality of madness: Did Plato, Cusanus and Kierkegaard get it right?
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Embodied, Relational, Desiring, Vulnerable – Reconsidering Imago Dei
- Christian Ethics, Lutheran Tradition, and Pluralistic Society
- Erasmus versus Luther: A Contemporary Analysis of the Debate on Free Will
- The rationality of madness: Did Plato, Cusanus and Kierkegaard get it right?
- Erfahrung, Introspektion und Wert. Zur Vorgeschichte der Religionspsychologie in Deutschland
- Theology and Philosophy of Religion in Richard Wagner’s Parsifal
- Von letzten Dingen
- Zeitschriftenschau
