World (GS 12). It makes a great difference whether man is viewed in a purely materialistic way, as a mere product of evolution, of the material processes of the cosmos; whether he is viewed esoterically, in the Gnostic sense that is widespread today, as a “part of God”, a “divine Self”; or whether, in the sense found in the Bible, in revelation, he is valued as God’s creature, indeed, as “ ‘the only creature on earth that God has willed for its own sake’ ” (GS 24 § 3, quoted in CCC 1703). But how