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