It seems to me like a lot of the points here about all creation existing on a spectrum of divine image-ness should be pretty uncontroversial on a traditional metaphysics of participation. If created existence can never be anything other than a finite expression of God's own qualities, it seems like you would have to work pretty hard to justify any one creature being a divine icon to the exclusion of others, even if some are divine icons to a higher degree than others.
To me the fact that in Gensis Yahweh fills the animals and all with his breath and makes them too of the clay/primodrial waters is telling , or at least as i've always read it that they to and all things are filled and out pouring with the image.
Hello! I thank you for your work. Will you release a giant book with all your articles (please)? Much easier and wholesome to read from a book than from the internet. Thank you.
It seems to me like a lot of the points here about all creation existing on a spectrum of divine image-ness should be pretty uncontroversial on a traditional metaphysics of participation. If created existence can never be anything other than a finite expression of God's own qualities, it seems like you would have to work pretty hard to justify any one creature being a divine icon to the exclusion of others, even if some are divine icons to a higher degree than others.
To me the fact that in Gensis Yahweh fills the animals and all with his breath and makes them too of the clay/primodrial waters is telling , or at least as i've always read it that they to and all things are filled and out pouring with the image.
Hello! I thank you for your work. Will you release a giant book with all your articles (please)? Much easier and wholesome to read from a book than from the internet. Thank you.