Sentences with phrase «creating human likeness»

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Forasmuch as each man is a part of the human race, and human nature is something social, and has for a great and natural good, the power also of friendship; on this account God willed to create all men out of one, in order that they might be held in their society not only by likeness of kind, but also by bond of kindred.

At the heart of all of this is a passionate conviction that every human is created in the image and likeness of God.

What is created at that moment is a single new creature — a human person — with the capacity to become conscious and free «in the image and likeness of God».

While couched in different language, Catholic social teaching has much in common with this approach, in its overriding concern to safeguard the unique dignity of every human person, created in the image and likeness of God, and in its emphasis on the duty of civil authority to foster the common good.

«Freedom,» he said, «is ever new,» and the Church will do her part in «building a world ever more worthy of the human person, created in the image and likeness of God.»

If so, then human minds, created in the image and likeness of God, should be able to understand the world in which we find ourselves; much of the skepticism of modern society needs then to be rethought by Christians.

Invoking a scriptural image of man created as the image and likeness of God, he redeployed reason and will, securing — at least for believers — an enduring human nucleus.

This is what it means for human beings to be created in the image and likeness of God.

Attendantly, from within this millenarian orientation, Jesus himself was identified with the bar nasha of Daniel 7:13 — 14, a type of new Adam, who, on the basis of his appearance before the Ancient of Days, recovered the characteristics that distinguish the human being created in the image and likeness of God: dominion, glory, and kingship (see Ps.

Undoubtedly, one of the major problems that has beset theological aesthetics is, on the one hand, the modern and post-modern loss of faith in the image and likeness of God in created human nature; and on the other, the loss of conviction that truth is objectively real and attainable by the human person, intellectually and by feeling (aesthesis).

This way of understanding the human person, which stems from the unique dignity of the person created in the image and likeness of God (Gen 1:26 - 27) and called to eternal redemption in Christ, is rooted in revelation, but it can be appreciated or grasped as true even by those who do not share our faith, on the basis of natural moral law.6

This is seen particularly in Gen. 1:26 where God addresses the divine council, saying «Let us» create humans in «our image, according to our likeness,» though the language shifts to the singular in the following verse.

Based on observation, as scientists likes to say, are you not created in the likeness of your human parents?

Importantly, this divine and human co-signification was made possible precisely because of the Christian teaching which regarded the human being as created in the image and likeness of God.

It censured libertinism and cruelty, and upheld the freedom to practice the good, chastity, virginity, innocence, conjugal fidelity, love of enemies, charity, abnegation, goodness toward the weak, and dignity for all human beings, created in the image and likeness of God.