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Image of God

Every human bears the imprint of the Maker — the root of human dignity

The image of God, or imago Dei, is the teaching that humanity is created in God's image and likeness, as stated in Genesis 1:26. This grounds the dignity belonging to every human being. Irenaeus, among the early Fathers, distinguished between the image and the likeness of God in human nature. Across Christian traditions the conviction endures that the human person reflects something of the Creator.

How it traveled

  1. 1 Corinthians
    Ephesus · 67
    applies
  2. Matthew
    Antioch · 80
    explains
  3. Luke
    Rome · 84
    applies
  4. On the Workmanship of God, or the Formation of Man
    — · 325
    explains
  5. The Life of Constantine with Orations of Constantine and Eusebius
    Caesarea · 339
    explains
  6. The Incarnation of the Word
    Alexandria · 373
    explains
  7. Against the Heathen. (Contra Gentes.)
    Alexandria · 373
    explains
  8. The Hexæmeron
    Caesarea (Cappadocia) · 379
    explains
  9. The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril
    Jerusalem · 386
    explains
  10. Select Orations of Saint Gregory Nazianzen
    Nazianzus · 390
    explains
  11. On the Making of Man
    Nyssa · 395
    explains
  12. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  13. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  14. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Paul's Epistle to the Romans
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  15. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle to the Hebrews
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  16. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St. John
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  17. Homilies on First Corinthians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  18. The Commentary and Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Galatians and Ephesians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  19. The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  20. A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  21. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Timothy, Titus, and Philemon
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  22. The Letters of St. Jerome
    Bethlehem · 420
    explains
  23. City of God
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  24. Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  25. On the Holy Trinity
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  26. The Confessions
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  27. Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  28. A Treatise on the Soul and its Origin
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  29. Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  30. Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  31. Letters of St. Augustin
    Hippo Regius · 430
    applies
  32. Treatise on Man (qq[75]-102)
    Paris · 1274
    explains
  33. Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59)
    Paris · 1274
    explains
  34. Treatise on The One God (QQ[2-26])
    Paris · 1274
    explains
  35. Book Second. of the Knowledge of God the Redeemer, in Christ, as First Manifested to the Fathers, Under the Law, and Thereafter to Us Under the Gospel
    Geneva · 1564
    explains
  36. Book First. of the Knowledge of God the Creator
    Geneva · 1564
    explains
  37. Seventeen Occasional Sermons
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
    explains
  38. The great christian doctrine of original sin defended
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
    explains
  39. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, in Three Parts
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
    explains
  40. A Dissertation on the Nature of True Virtue
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
    applies

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