scholarly journals The Link Between the Type of Attachment and Religiosity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toader Alina Mădălina ◽  
Vasiliu Alexandra ◽  
Constantinescu-Coban Raisa ◽  
Trifu Simona
Keyword(s):  
Image Of God ◽  
Secure Attachment ◽  
Religious Activities ◽  
Attachment Figure ◽  
Behavioral Studies ◽  
Common Response ◽  
Theory Research ◽  
The Image Of God ◽  
Parental Figure

Motivation: This paper aims to show the central role of the notion of attachment in human behavior, the image of God in the representation of the believer as a parental figure and as an oversized attachment figure in the personal relationships, social and religious behavior. Methods: Scientific and comparative studies of different concepts from psychology of religion, social psychology, psychoanalytic theory, cognitive psychology as well as theory, research and behavioral studies. Results: Attachment to God seems to develop in a coordinated way with the maturation of attachment to the primary figure but also with the development of cognitive processes involved. In addition, in case of danger, loss and separation are validate the human and common response to approach God as a substitute figure of attachment, the intensification of religious activities. Conclusions: The need for attachment and attachment for religion is one of the prerogatives of survival, development and growth and it is present in all-important areas of the life, culture and in all societies. People who develop a secure attachment are less prone to become religious over time.

scholarly journals The Link Between the Type of Attachment and Religiosity

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Toader Alina Mădălina ◽  
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Vasiliu Alexandra ◽  
Constantinescu-Coban Raisa ◽  
Trifu Simona ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Image Of God ◽  
Secure Attachment ◽  
Religious Activities ◽  
Attachment Figure ◽  
Behavioral Studies ◽  
Common Response ◽  
Theory Research ◽  
The Image Of God ◽  
Parental Figure

Motivation: This paper aims to show the central role of the notion of attachment in human behavior, the image of God in the representation of the believer as a parental figure and as an oversized attachment figure in the personal relationships, social and religious behavior. Methods: Scientific and comparative studies of different concepts from psychology of religion, social psychology, psychoanalytic theory, cognitive psychology as well as theory, research and behavioral studies. Results: Attachment to God seems to develop in a coordinated way with the maturation of attachment to the primary figure but also with the development of cognitive processes involved. In addition, in case of danger, loss and separation are validate the human and common response to approach God as a substitute figure of attachment, the intensification of religious activities. Conclusions: The need for attachment and attachment for religion is one of the prerogatives of survival, development and growth and it is present in all-important areas of the life, culture and in all societies. People who develop a secure attachment are less prone to become religious over time.

‘He Spoke and It Was’: Human Language, Divine Creation, and the imago dei

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-59
Author(s):  
Gerald A. Klingbeil
Keyword(s):  
Image Of God ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
Human Language ◽  
Human History ◽  
Abstract Concepts ◽  
John 1 ◽  
Human Ability ◽  
The Image Of God ◽  
Point Of Departure

Abstract This study examines the triangle linking biblical creation, anthropology, and human language. It takes as its point of departure the notion that language is an important part of the image of God in which humanity was created (Gottebenbildlichkeit). Since most of creation is accomplished through God’s spoken word (see Gen 1 and also John 1), the human ability to speak and communicate abstract concepts appears to be an echo of the divine and distinguishes humans from the rest of creation. The paper traces some of the highlights marking the important role of language within the context of human history, including the fall and the divine plan of redemption, thus linking the theological categories of anthropology and soteriology.

Parental Image and the Concept of God: An Evangelical Protestant—Catholic Comparison

1976 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark D. Keyser ◽  
Gary R. Collins
Keyword(s):  
Christian Education ◽  
Image Of God ◽  
Concept Of God ◽  
Evangelical Protestants ◽  
The Image Of God ◽  
The Church ◽  
Parental Figure ◽  
Evangelical Protestant

The study investigated similarities between the concept of Cod and the image of the parents in evangelical Protestants. The results were then compared with a previous study done with Catholic subjects. The study found that among evangelicals the image of God was rated equally high on maternal and paternal items. This suggests that God is perceived as a well integrated parental image by evangelicals. When compared with Catholics, it was found that evangelicals perceived God as more maternal. The possible effects of the Mother Mary figure on the divine image as an explanation for this difference are considered. Furthermore, it was found that evangelicals also perceived God as more paternal than did Catholics. It is suggested that this indicates that evangelicals understand God as a parental figure while Catholics perceive Him as an institutional figure. Implications are drawn for Christian education in both the church and home.

Sport Does Not Make Man

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-71
Author(s):  
Boban Milenkovic
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Image Of God ◽  
Sports Industry ◽  
New Man ◽  
Right To Work ◽  
The World ◽  
The Gift ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Image Of God

SummarySyncretism, by which the man is being destroyed, connects the sport and the industry with different philosophical-religious stances toward the world, and it hides behind a mask of progress whose real face is greed – an insatiable wish to own the new world, which is without man and without God, and to create a “new” man. The world of progress is a world of greed which has its own laws, i. e. its ethics, in which a man as a creature which bears the image of God does not fit. It only fits if it is just a lever of this same progressive greed. The man by its nature shows himself through the work, and hence man has the right to work, for man makes work being work, it is not that the work makes man being a man. In such a context the game/sport is in the category of man’s work and the showing (accomplishment) of human God-likeliness and by that the central (man-centered) role of the man concerning the world around him, which is only preparation to accomplish the full theanthropocentricity (having Christ as center) of the whole creation. Sports industry requires the new ethics by its own measures, and by them it shapes the sportsmen as its indispensable, not self-aware parts. Regardless of being wounded by sin, corruptibility and death, by the gift of Lord, each grace-filled synergetic move (hence the game/sports) of the man toward the world is the confirmation of the theanthropocentricity of the creation and Christ-centered nature (theanthropocentricity) of man.

scholarly journals Orthodox Cosmology and Cosmography

Eikon / Imago ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-94
Author(s):  
Rotislava Todorova
Keyword(s):  
Image Of God ◽  
Imago Dei ◽  
The World ◽  
Creatio Ex Nihilo ◽  
Ex Nihilo ◽  
Symbolic Images ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Image Of God ◽  
The Invisible

Orthodox iconography is focused on the idea of representing the cosmos, the essence of God’s creatio ex nihilo, thus serving as a visual cosmology and thence - as a cosmography of all being. Icons depict the image of the archetypal world in its integrity, unachievable for the limited human abilities, and are ontologically inseparable from this archetype. Therefore, iconography has been always related with the idea of representing the world trough symbolic images. In this context, it becomes a visual cosmology, and hence - a kind of cosmography of all being. Although not identical to cartography, Orthodox iconography creates symbolic images that can be interpreted as an image of the whole world – oikoumene. One particular example in this respect relates with the semantics and usage of mandorla symbol. In the Orthodox iconography, the mandorla has its function as a vision of Divine. It can be called even Imago Dei, expressing the invisible to the eyes and incomprehensible to the mind essence of God. However, in a number of iconographic scenes the image of God is related theologically and artistically with the cosmological perceptions of Christianity about the theocentricity of cosmos. Thus, mandorla as Imago Dei often plays the role of a symbolic Imago Mundi.

scholarly journals Life in our hands? Some ethical perspectives on the human genome and human genome diversity projects

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornelius W. Du Toit
Keyword(s):  
Human Genome ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Image Of God ◽  
Human Genome Diversity Project ◽  
Genome Diversity ◽  
Genome Research ◽  
The Image Of God ◽  
Ethical Perspectives

The article dealt with implications of the human genome and the human genome diversity project. It examined some theological implications, such as: humans as the image of God, God as the creator of life, the changed role of miracles and healings in religion, the sacredness of nature, life and the genome. Ethical issues that were addressed include eugenics, germline intervention, determinism and the human genome diversity project. Economic and legal factors that play a role were also discussed. Whilst positive aspects of genome research were considered, a critical stance was adopted towards patenting the human genome and some concluding guidelines were proposed.

Attachment–style Differences in the Appraisal of the Attachment Figure

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 173-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marieke Dewitte ◽  
Jan De Houwer
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Style ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Affective Priming ◽  
Cognitive Inhibition ◽  
Secure Attachment ◽  
Anxious Attachment ◽  
Attachment Figure ◽  
Specific Attachment

The present study investigated the distinctive effects of global and specific attachment styles on the processing of attachment–figure cues, focusing specifically on the role of cognitive inhibition. We manipulated the temporal accessibility of specific attachment styles and measured automatic inhibitory processes using a negative affective priming (NAP) task presenting positive and negative words. We also measured one's explicit attitude towards the attachment figure. Results showed that specific, but not global, attachment styles influenced the processing of attachment–figure cues. We also found that participants primed with a secure attachment style showed a better inhibition of negative traits than those primed with an insecure style. At the explicit level, the anxious attachment types showed a more negative evaluation of their attachment figure than primed secures. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

scholarly journals Pico della Mirandola on the Dignity of Man and Some Contemporary Echoes of His Philosophy

Clotho ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-72
Author(s):  
Marko Uršič
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Image Of God ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Belief In God ◽  
Marsilio Ficino ◽  
Renaissance Period ◽  
The World ◽  
Human Quality ◽  
The Image Of God

The Oration on the Dignity of Man makes a claim, characteristic for the Renaissance, that the dignity of man, the real “excellency of human nature,” is not present in any specific human quality or ability. Neither is it present in the role of the human soul as the “tie of the world” (copula mundi), as Marsilio Ficino has taught. Even higher than this eminent human role in the world is the freedom of man to choose his role and task himself. At the same time, Pico believes that Man was created as the image of God, in the sense that no man is determined in advance: human free will reflects God’s free will in creation. From the point of view of the mainstream modern dualism, this is a paradox, even a contradiction. This paper argues the opposite: that the human free will is even nowadays, not less than in the Renaissance period, compatible with the belief in God. However, this is only the case if God (being transcendent or immanent to the world) does not command anything, if God does not demand anything – except love. Violence and killing are eo ipso prohibited, especially in the name of faith. Therefore, freedom and faith are perfectly compatible. Even more, modern humans are fatally unfree either in the secular “radicalization” of faith or in the atheistic secularization of the world. Unfree due to their existence (Dasein), enslaved by the Angst of “mere nothing.”

scholarly journals THE PAINFUL EXISTENCE IN THE BOLESŁAW LEŚMIAN’S POEM "AT NIGHT"

2021 ◽  
pp. 76-90
Author(s):  
T. Pavlinchuk
Keyword(s):  
Image Of God ◽  
System Structure ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Translation Analysis ◽  
Translation Techniques ◽  
Poetic Translation ◽  
Artistic Images ◽  
The Image Of God

The paper deals with poetic translation analysis of the poem "At Night"of the Polish poet Bolesław Leśmian. The appearance of Bolesław Leśmian’s poetry in Ukrainian translation (the collections of selected works "Садбожий спалахненець" and "Ангели" translated by M. Kiianovska) has become an important event. The researcher focuses their attention on the contextual, poetic, poetical, artistic and stylistic peculiarities of the poem "At Night", in connection with the philosophic and literary views of the poet. The wide range of scientific works on Bolesław Leśmian’s poetry in Polish literary studies allows us to study different aspects of this poet’s poetics: symbolism, peculiarities of the artistic images creation, the appeal to folk sources, the language of his literary works, the image of God in his poetry, the role of rhythm, immediacy of worldview and creating the world anew in "song without words" etc.  The poetics of the poem has been studied, its interpretation is based on the unity of compositional, semantic, figurative elements of the poem. The translation analysis, aimed at the study of structural and semantic features of the poem "At Night" in Ukrainian translation, is concentrated on the author’s peculiarities of creating images and their representation by M. Kiianovska in her translation of the poem. The author of the article focuses on the concept of the original and translation, the overall mood of the poem, its content, figurative system, structure, rhythmic organization, the rhyming system of the translation and the original. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the selection of lexical equivalents, the poetic syntax of the poem and other translation techniques on the way to better understanding of the text, the artistic images creation and grammatical and compositional integrity of the translation of the poem.

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