Creativity

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According to the Christian belief, the creation of man is understood to mean that man was created by God . This creation happened in "the image of God".

Traditional interpretations of human creation

In ancient and medieval theology, based on these and adjacent biblical passages, thought was given to the role of man in creation ( crown of creation ).

Modern interpretations of creatureliness

More modern theologians emphasize that according to Genesis, not only humans, but the entire cosmos (including animals, plants, apparently inanimate nature, etc.) were created by God. Instead of man's rule over the world (repeatedly misunderstood as the right to exploit the earth), man's responsibility for the preservation of creation (also according to Genesis) is emphasized. Man is seen as one of many parts of creation and as its keeper.

literature

  • Stefanie Bohlen, Creativity and Freedom: An Approach to the Thought of Creation at the start of Kant's critical philosophy, Berlin: Duncker and Humblot 2003; ISBN 3428109406
  • Manfred Gerwing , The human being a creature of God ?: on the Christian understanding of humanity, in: Person - Human Dignity - Human Rights in Disput, ed. M. Not / A. Wildfeuer (workbooks for school and educational work 5) Münster 2002, 155–174; ISBN 3-8258-6104-X

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ( Gen 1.27f  EU ) and ( Gen 2.7  EU )