Man, The Image of God The Creation of Man as Good News

by Schoenborn, Cardinal Christoph

• ISBN13: 9781586174200
• ISBN10: 1586174207
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-09-15
• Publisher: Ignatius Press

Summary

God created man in his own image, and the profound implications of this assertion are the subject of this book. Drawing on philosophy, theology, science, Scripture and art, Cardinal Schonborn reflects on man as the greatest of God's creatures and on the Christian understanding of his incomparable dignity that flows from this truth.According to the Christian faith, all the works of God converge toward man, and find their goal in him. The world was made for man, and man was made for God. This anthropocentrism resounds like good news at a time when many find it hard to believe in God's special and personal providence for man. It is good news, indeed, that man has worth and his life has meaning because God bears an infinite love for him - a love which is the very origin of creation and is the reason for the work of redemption.Among the topics Cardinal Schonborn addresses are: Christ-the Loveliest of Men, The Exaltation of Man, The Basis of Man's Dignity, Faith in Art, God with a Human Face.

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Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 7
Christ, the Loveliest of Men
Introduction	p. 11
Taking Another Look	p. 17
Christ Is Beauty	p. 21
Christ Draws Us with Him on the Path of His Beauty	p. 23
Man Created by God: The Basis of Man's Dignity
Introduction	p. 31
The Exaltation of Man	p. 33
Everything Was Created for Man	p. 79
Man Is the Image of God	p. 40
A Disputed Greatness	p. 45
Man Is Only a Part of the Whole	p. 67
"Forgetting the Soul"	p. 49
Anthropocentrism and the "Abolition of Man"	p. 52
The "Creatio Immediata Animae"	p. 59
The Creation of Man as Good News	p. 67
Conclusion	p. 71
Life in Abundance	p. 75
The Improbability of Life	p. 79
The Gospel of Life	p. 85
"I Am the Life"	p. 93
God with a Human Face Art and Real Presence
Introduction	p. 97
Faithful Assent to Art	p. 99
A Crisis for Sacred Music-A Crisis for Religious Images	p. 100
On the Ambivalence of Images	p. 100
God with a Human Face: The Icon of Christ	p. 105
Art and Real Presence	p. 111
The Icon: A Vision of the World to Come	p. 115
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