(and the Christian who is fashioned after him) is the Image, so much so that the first creation “in image and likeness” remains a purely ideal one, whereas the second, concrete creation already contains an admixture of dissimilarity (anticipating the Fall). Finite freedom, in its yearning, penetrates ever more deeply into infinite freedom: this is the progressive unveiling of the image; or, more precisely, the original Image [Urbild] is increasingly reflected and rendered present in the copy [Abbild].
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