Tag: Imago

  • Hominins, Apes, and the Imago Dei

    The Swedish naturalist and botanist Carl Linnaeus caused a storm of controversy in the eighteenth century by classifying homo sapiens in the same genus (homo) as the recently discovered orangutan and by placing the genus homo within the order of primates. Linnaeus did not deny the unique dignity of human beings.

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  • Genocide and the Imago Dei

    For centuries since antiquity, many an intermediate Latin student’s experience with Latin prose began with the same sentence: “Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres” [Gaul as a whole is divided into three parts]. This matter-of-fact opening of Julius Caesar’s Commentarii de Bello Gallico, documenting his nearly-decade-long campaigns in Gaul

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