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Flawed Perfection: What It Means to Be Human and Why It Matters for Culture, Politics, and Law is unavailable, but you can change that!

From exploitation and violence to decisions about how to wisely govern or care for human life, the problems humanity faces aren’t just abstract issues—they impact the day-to-day lives of many individuals and communities across the globe. How should Christians wrestle with these complex and difficult problems in a thoughtful, ethical way? According to Jeffrey A. Brauch, we need to start with an...

One of the most common ways of expressing what it means to be God’s image-bearers is that we possess dignity. For example, the Catholic Catechism’s summary states well the consensus of various Christian traditions: “Being in the image of God the human individual possesses the dignity of a person, who is not just something, but someone.”27 This is especially true because we, uniquely among all creatures, can be in relationship with God. “The dignity of man rests above all on the fact that he is called
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