MAN AS THE IMAGE OF GOD, IMAGE OF THE WORLD AND IMAGE OF THE WORLD-CREATION: TOWARDS THE PERSPECTIVES OF CHRISTIAN ANTHROPOLOGY
The article raises the issues of contemporary anthropology in the view of perspectives of Christian idea about a man as an image of God. These are the problems of correlation of natural unconsciousness and conscious comprehension in a human creature. And as a part, this is a question of the base of the mutual influence, the problems of a plurality and contradictions of modalities of consciousness. We put forward the question about possibilities of Christian discourse on a human nature and his capacities in the aspect of the perspectives in contemporary anthropology. In the issue the versions and the arguments of understanding the nature of a man as an image of God are analyses in a key of Christian doctrines. We propose as a methodological approach the idea about some modus, some planes of unified structure and nature of human consciousness. In these planes it performs as an Image and a reflection of the World (in the form of reason), an Image and comprehension of God (in the modus of existential self-renewal and mystic transgression), and an Image and a reception of a event and process of world-creation (in the modus of aesthetic perception and poetic creation) synchronically. Theoretical perspectives and implications of this approach are estimated both for philosophical anthropology, and for theological exegesis on conflict of primordial man, fallen man and salvaged man.
Keywords: anthropology, theology, root cause, consciousness, sense-creation, self-assertiveness, self-renewal, self- replenishment
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Issue: 11, 2014
Series of issue: Issue 11
Rubric: INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES
Pages: 206 — 213
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