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Nikos A. Nissiotis

"Secular and Christian Images of Human Person"

Theologia 33, Athens 1962, p. 947- 989; Theologia 34, Athens 1963, p. 90-122.



Foreword

I. Anthropology and Cosmology: the inseparable link between man, nature and history

1. Man, Nature, Cosmos, Ktisis and History as an unbroken continuum

2. Matter — Nature and Body — Soul: One κτίσις

3. The Uniqueness of Man in Cosmos and in solidarity with Nature


II. Scientific approaches to the Human Person and their Challenge to Christian Anthropological Visions

1. Determinism-mechanism in Science and Evolutionary Humanism

2. Psychosocial models as images of man

3. The Overcoming of Mechanistic Determinism in Science and the new challenge in Christian anthropology


III. The Image of God: Christian Anthropology in Dialogue with Secular Images of Man

1. The Imago Dei: Love, communion and humbleness

2. Imago Dei: a hopeful and repenting sinner

3. Imago Dei: a Challenge to Immanentist Human Identities


IV. Becoming Human - Becoming Divine / Deification: a process towards achieving authentic Humanum in Christ

1. Humanization as a God-given Process in the Service of Humanum

2. Deification: a sharing in God for achieving authentic humanization

3. Authentic Humanness in Humanizing Divinity



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