Tag: Image of God

Rethinking Patristic Categories? A Response to Petre Maican
Theology

Rethinking Patristic Categories? A Response to Petre Maican

by Fr. David G. Bissias If it were not well-intentioned, Petre Maican’s article “Image and Likeness and Profound Cognitive Disability: Rethinking Patristic Categories” (published on Public Orthodoxy, July 2, 2019), could be offensive. In the final analysis, it is simply misguided due to several failures: of coherency, doctrinal perspective, and a failure to grasp the…

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Image and Likeness and Profound Cognitive Disability
Theology

Image and Likeness and Profound Cognitive Disability

by Petre Maican The distinction between image and likeness is one of the recurring themes in the patristic writings and one of the main building blocks of modern Orthodox theology. But is this distinction useful for answering the anthropological question from the perspective of disability? Is it useful to speak about image and likeness in…

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Can Orthodox Support Human Rights? <br><span style='color:#8D8381;font-size:18px;'>The Divine Image, the Person, and Human Rights</span>
Orthodoxy and Modernity, Public Life

Can Orthodox Support Human Rights?
The Divine Image, the Person, and Human Rights

Patristic anthropology, the theology of the human person and human rights are intimately related. Recognition of the close relationships among these three areas is essential to the elaboration of a sound Orthodox theology concerning the nature and status of human existence in the face of secularism, technology, violence and other challenges to what it means…

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