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“FILL AND SUBDUE”? IMAGING GOD IN NEW SOCIAL AND ECOLOGICAL CONTEXTS
Author(s) -
Roberts Jason P.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
zygon®
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/zygo.12152
Subject(s) - mythology , interpretation (philosophy) , homo sapiens , context (archaeology) , point (geometry) , epistemology , sociology , image of god , environmental ethics , anthropology , ecology , philosophy , aesthetics , history , archaeology , theology , linguistics , geometry , mathematics , biology
While the social and ecological landscape of the twenty‐first century is worlds away from the historical‐cultural context in which the biblical myth‐symbols of the image of God and the knowledge of good and evil first emerged, Philip Hefner's understanding that Homo sapiens image God as created co‐creators presents a plausible starting point for constructing a second naïveté interpretation of biblical anthropology and a fruitful concept for envisioning and enacting our human future.