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Measuring the Image of God: The God Image Inventory and the God Image Scales
Journal of Psychology and Theology, 1997The God Image Inventory (GII) is an 8-scale, 156-item, psychometric instrument to measure the image of God, developed for clinical and pastoral use in N = 1 cases. For research use with a large N, the God Image Scales (GIS), in a 6-scale, 72-item format, or a 3-scale, 36-item format, are preferred subsets of the GII.
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Psychological Type and Images of God
2023This study was designed to test the construct validity of the Index of Positive Images of God as assessing the theological conceptualisation of a salvific God of Mercy construed in relational terms by examining the location of the construct within the framework of psychological type theory.
Francis, L.J. +3 more
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2022
The evaluation of the felix culpa view depends on understanding the perfection of the true self and the scale of value by which that perfection is measured. This chapter presents Aquinas’s notion of perfection in general in order to clarify a scale of value by which to measure the perfection of the true self.
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The evaluation of the felix culpa view depends on understanding the perfection of the true self and the scale of value by which that perfection is measured. This chapter presents Aquinas’s notion of perfection in general in order to clarify a scale of value by which to measure the perfection of the true self.
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American Journal of Pastoral Counseling, 2004
SUMMARY God images are constructed out of personal and cultural contexts. Expressing ultimate value and meaning, they are inevitably connected to self images. Pastoral counselors are uniquely qualified to relate to and assist in the transformation of these images. This paper discusses the constriction and impoverishment of God images due to traditional
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SUMMARY God images are constructed out of personal and cultural contexts. Expressing ultimate value and meaning, they are inevitably connected to self images. Pastoral counselors are uniquely qualified to relate to and assist in the transformation of these images. This paper discusses the constriction and impoverishment of God images due to traditional
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Social Work Students' Images of God
Social Thought, 2003Abstract Images of God are part of social workers’ belief systems and can affect their professional practice. This study examined images of God in a sample of fifty‐nine social work graduate students, most of whom were white, female, and Protestant. The findings revealed that certain traditional images, such as Spirit and Creator, were likely to be ...
Catherine A. Faver +2 more
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Life of the Spirit, 1951
Here beginneth a sermon of Saint Austin how a man is made to the image and likeness of God his maker, of naught. How great is the dignity of man's making it is known, that not by word alone of God's bidding, man is made of naught, as other works of six days, but in counsel of the Holy Trinity and work of God's majesty, that he should know of the honour
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Here beginneth a sermon of Saint Austin how a man is made to the image and likeness of God his maker, of naught. How great is the dignity of man's making it is known, that not by word alone of God's bidding, man is made of naught, as other works of six days, but in counsel of the Holy Trinity and work of God's majesty, that he should know of the honour
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Blackfriars, 1957
Adam, says the Bible, was made to the image of God, and the Church adds that so are all men; and that this image-hood is chiefly in man’s soul. What then is ‘soul’? In our philosophy the term, or its equivalents, denotes life; anything alive has a soul.
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Adam, says the Bible, was made to the image of God, and the Church adds that so are all men; and that this image-hood is chiefly in man’s soul. What then is ‘soul’? In our philosophy the term, or its equivalents, denotes life; anything alive has a soul.
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1997
Abstract The first of Maximus’ lectures on what may be called broadly theological and/or cosmological themes, showing points of contact with Orr. 4-11, 13,and 41. An initial survey of primitive and rustic divine images introduces the question whether sophisticated, urban man will have recourse to such practices too (§ 1).
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Abstract The first of Maximus’ lectures on what may be called broadly theological and/or cosmological themes, showing points of contact with Orr. 4-11, 13,and 41. An initial survey of primitive and rustic divine images introduces the question whether sophisticated, urban man will have recourse to such practices too (§ 1).
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2020
This chapter examines the subject of humanity as created in the image and likeness of God, a central theme in the Christian mystical tradition. Indeed, the imago Dei forms the foundation of much if not all Christian theological anthropology, and questions of the ‘nature’ and ‘structure’ of the human person are evidently central to questions of the ...
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This chapter examines the subject of humanity as created in the image and likeness of God, a central theme in the Christian mystical tradition. Indeed, the imago Dei forms the foundation of much if not all Christian theological anthropology, and questions of the ‘nature’ and ‘structure’ of the human person are evidently central to questions of the ...
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