Imago Dei

A few unedited notes from my first ethics of life and death class.

Imago Dei – In what ways are we made in the image of God.

• We have been given “dominion”.
• Anthropocentrism
• Stewardship
• Taking care of stuff
• But it’s not ours
• This relates to life, because we are to be stewards of all of life, even if something is not human.
• Rationality – Humans are rational, this is one of the ways we are like God.

• “Nephesh” – Living Being
• What does this mean?
• We have the Spirit of God? (do we all have the Spirit or only believers?)

• Creation – We are co-creators. Gen 4 – “I have produced a man with the help of the Lord.”

• As bearers of the image of God, we are reminding the world of God.

• We are mud, and as such, we are subject to the rules that govern the rest of the mud.