Transhumanism and the Image of God: Today’s Technology and the Future of Christian Discipleship, by Jacob Shatzer

Pneuma ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 581-583
Author(s):  
Peter D. Neumann
Keyword(s):  
Image Of God ◽  
The Future ◽  
Christian Discipleship ◽  
The Image Of God

Transhumanism and the Image of God. Today’s Technology and the Future of Christian Discipleship

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-96
Author(s):  
Yannick Imbert
Keyword(s):  
Image Of God ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Guiding Principles ◽  
Christian Discipleship ◽  
Key Indicators ◽  
The Image Of God ◽  
Cette Question

SUMMARYWhat does it mean for Christians to live in a highly technologised world? In this book, Jacob Shatzer searches for an answer. First, Christians have to answer these crucial questions: What is technology? What is its impact on our lives and on the world? Second, Shatzer gives some key indicators and guiding principles, framed in terms of Christian discipleship. This is a clear and useful book.RÉSUMÉQu’implique pour les chrétiens de vivre dans un monde où la technologie est omniprésente ? Jacob Shatzer tente de répondre à cette question. Tout d’abord, les chrétiens doivent s’interroger sur la nature de la technologie et sur l’impact des produits des techniques sur notre vie et sur le monde. Puis il propose des indicateurs clés et des principes directeurs, en vue d’une vie de disciple chrétien.ZUSAMMENFASSUNGWas bedeutet es für Christen, in einer hoch technologisierten Welt zu leben? In diesem Buch sucht Jacob Shatzer nach einer Antwort. Zuerst müssen Christen diese wichtigen Fragen beantworten: Was ist Technologie? Was macht ihren Einfluss auf unser Leben und unsere Welt aus? Zweitens gibt der Autor einige Schlüsselindikatoren und Richtlinien im Rahmen christlicher Jüngerschaft. Dies stellt ein klares und hilfreiches Book dar.

scholarly journals The Understanding of God’s Image by Anthony Hoekema

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 2084-2089
Author(s):  
Reymand Hutabarat ◽  
Franklin Hutabarat ◽  
Deanna Beryl Majilang
Keyword(s):  
Distinctive Feature ◽  
Image Of God ◽  
Reformed Theology ◽  
The Core ◽  
Christian Anthropology ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Functional Aspects ◽  
The Future ◽  
God's Image ◽  
The Image Of God

Introduction : Anthony Hoekema was active in his works as a preacher, teacher, and writer.[1] He is one of the most outstanding reformed theologians which authored several books such as Created in God’s Image, The Four Major Cults, What About Tongue-Speaking? The Bible and the Future, and Saved By Grace.   Method : Hoekema’s theology as a whole is a reformed theology. The core and the very foundation of reformed theology is the sovereignty of God. Hoekema sees that the creation of man in God’s image is “the most distinctive feature of a biblical understanding of man.” This is why he understands that “the concept of the image of God is the heart of Christian anthropology.”   Result & Discussion : His concept of the image of God in man is examined in this section, which is divided into the following five parts: the meaning of being created in the image of God, the structural and functional aspects of God’s image, Jesus as the true image of God, the image of God in man’s threefold relationship, and the image of God in four different stages.    

scholarly journals An Image of God for the Future of Europe

2021 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-41
Author(s):  
João Manuel Duque
Keyword(s):  
European Society ◽  
Image Of God ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Political Effects ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Image Of God

The article intends to explore the possible impact of the image of God originated in Judaism and Christianity on some elements of the configuration of Europe, in an essentially cultural perspective, although with also political effects. It is not intended to assess this impact only within Christian or Jewish communities, that is, in relation to the believers of these religious traditions. It is intended to extend this impact to European society, as such, since the effect of this image of God can also refer to non-believers, especially in the way they interpret their daily lives and their social structures. It is not, therefore, about the recovery of a theocratic system, but about the possibility of effects of the reference to God, as if God did not exist.

The Future of Catholicism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Luc Marion
Keyword(s):  
Image Of God ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Ethical Role ◽  
The Image Of God ◽  
The Church ◽  
Object Of Knowledge

Catholicism has an ethical role in contemporary culture as raising questions about norms and practices in order to preserve the dignity of the human being. The Church must give the Word (Christ) to the world. Man as absolute principle (in Descartes, Kant, and Hegel) becomes a means to an end. The “I” treated as absolute subject of knowledge becomes an object. The I cannot be the source of values or knowledge (man reverts to himself); this devalues the I. Man transcends man. Instead of objectifying man as an object of knowledge, we must “recognize” man as created in the image of God (which assures man’s essential unknowability). Christians must “keep the vigil of the unknowable.”

Persons Together

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan L. Mittleman
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Image Of God ◽  
Jewish Tradition ◽  
The Political ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
Market Relations ◽  
The Image Of God

This chapter moves into the political and economic aspects of human nature. Given scarcity and interdependence, what sense has Judaism made of the material well-being necessary for human flourishing? What are Jewish attitudes toward prosperity, market relations, labor, and leisure? What has Judaism had to say about the political dimensions of human nature? If all humans are made in the image of God, what does that original equality imply for political order, authority, and justice? In what kinds of systems can human beings best flourish? It argues that Jewish tradition shows that we act in conformity with our nature when we elevate, improve, and sanctify it. As co-creators of the world with God, we are not just the sport of our biochemistry. We are persons who can select and choose among the traits that comprise our very own natures, cultivating some and weeding out others.

Gandhian Method of Conflict Resolution: Perception of Educated Youths

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. P. K. Kar
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Image Of God ◽  
Integral Approach ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
The Image Of God ◽  
Negative Concept

Gandhiji’s method of conflict resolution was based on truth and non-violence. Truth was for him the image of God. He did not believe in personal God. For Gandhi truth is God and God is truth. Life is a laboratory where experiments are carried on. That is why he named his autobiography “My Experiment with Truth”, without these experiments truth cannot be achieved. According to Gandhi, the sayings of a pure soul which possesses nonviolence, non-stealing, true speech, celibacy and non-possession is truth. The truth of Gandhiji was not confined to any country or community. In other words , his religion had no geographical limits. His patriotism was not different from the service of human beings but was its part and parcel(Mishra:102). Gandhiji developed an integral approach and perspective to the concept of life itself on the basis of experience and experiments. His ideas ,which came to be known to be his philosophy, were a part of his relentless search for truth(Iyer:270). The realization of this truth is possible only with the help of non-violence The negative concept of Ahimsa presupposes the absence of selfishness, jealousy and anger, but the positive conception of ahimsa demands the qualities of love ,liberalism, patience, resistance of injustice, and brutal force.

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