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Albrecht Dürer, Young Hare

Animals: Man and Beast

Issue Three / 2016

The panoply of creatures with which we are surrounded is an expression of the glory of God. Our relationship to that world is thus infused with respect: not because we worship nature, but because we worship God through the very creation which manifests him, and is sanctified all over again by his incarnation as a human being at the heart of it. Something which gives a particular signification to the role of man as pivotal in this hierarchy.

Humanum: Issues in Family, Culture & Science
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