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Communion and Stewardship: Human Persons Created in the Image of God is unavailable, but you can change that!

From the very first chapter in the Bible, one of the most provocative assertions of divine revelation is that human beings are created in the very image and likeness of God. This profound reality needs to be at the forefront of our mind as we reflect on how we treat and interact with each other. The ITC offers a broad and thorough analysis of the imago dei of human persons and what this means in...

(spirit, self-consciousness, and love) or the threefold aspects of the psyche (memory, intelligence, and will). According to Augustine, the image of God in man orients him to God in invocation, knowledge and love (Confessions I, 1,1). 16. In Thomas Aquinas, the imago Dei possesses an historical character, since it passes through three stages: the imago creationis (naturae), the imago recreationis (gratiae), and the similitudinis (gloriae) (S.Th. I q.93 a.4). For Aquinas, the imago Dei is the basis