“In the Image and Likeness”: The Uniqueness of the Human Person

Abstract

"Theological Anthropology, 500 years after Martin Luther gathers contributions on the theme of the human being and human existence from the perspectives of Orthodox and Protestant theology. These two traditions still have much to learn from each another, five hundred years after Martin Luther's Reformation. Taking Martin Luther's thought as a point of reference and presenting Orthodox perspectives in connection with and in contradistinction to it, this volume seeks to foster a dialogue on some of the key issues of theological anthropology, such as human freedom, sin, faith, the human as created in God's image and likeness, and the ultimate horizon of human existence. The present volume is one of the first attempts of this kind in contemporary ecumenical dialogue"-- Sola fide: a hermeneutical approach / John Zizioulas -- Imago Dei: God's grace and distance : perspectives for a Lutheran-Orthodox dialogue / Beate Bengard -- "In the image and likeness": the uniqueness of the human person / Kallistos Ware -- Sin and the bondage of the will / Christophe Chalamet -- Sin, freedom and free will: hermeneutical conditions of anthropology in the Orthodox tradition and Luther / Stavros Yangazoglou -- Luther's conception of Christian freedom: Orthodox insights / Konstantinos Delikostantis -- Martin Luther: unexpected dimensions of freedom / Hans-Christoph Askani -- Faith and justification in Luther's anthropology from a Protestant point of view / Henning Theissen -- Faith and justification / Jack Khalil -- Justification or deification?: Luther's soteriology in an ecumenical perspective / Reinhard Flogaus -- Theosis in an Orthodox and Lutheran perspective / Job Getcha -- Luther and the Christian's political commitment / Marc Vial -- Theosis and politics: Lutheran and Orthodox approaches / Aristotle Pananikolaou -- The paradoxical way of experiencing faith through spiritual attack (Anfechtung tentatio) / Elisabeth Parmentier.