A Man Created on the Image and Likeness of God According to the Christian and Muslim Theology

Authors

  • Bishara Ebeid dottore in Scienze Ecclesiastiche Orientali, Roma

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12775/TiCz.2016.022

Keywords

image, likeness, anthropology, Christ, Adam, Islam, Christianity, Qurān

Abstract

The creation of mankind, according to the Bible, was in the image of God and His likeness. The doctrine is the base of Christian anthropology, that is Christological and Trinitarian in its dimension. The comparison between the New Adam and the Old one is also one of the important points of the Christian anthropology related to the doctrine on human image and likeness of God. What one can say about the image and likeness of God according the Islamic anthropology? Do we have such an idea in the Qurān and the Islamic theology (kalām)? What are the common anthropological points and doctrines Christianity shares with Islam? What differences there are and why they occur? The paper deals with these, and the like, questions and attempts to answer, at least, on some of them. This is achieved through the analysis of the Christian and Islamic anthropologies.

Theology and Man

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2016-10-26

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EBEID, Bishara. A Man Created on the Image and Likeness of God According to the Christian and Muslim Theology. Theology and Man. Online. 26 October 2016. Vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 169-190. [Accessed 5 July 2025]. DOI 10.12775/TiCz.2016.022.

Issue

Vol. 34 No. 2 (2016)

Section

Orient

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