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Dignity is a fundamental aspect of our lives, yet one we rarely pause to consider; our understandings of dignity, on individual, collective and philosophical perspectives, shape how we think, act and relate to others. This book offers an historical survey of how dignity has been understood and explores the concept in the Judaeo-Christian tradition.World-renowned contributors examine the roots of human dignity in classical Greece and Rome and the Scriptures, as well as in the work of theologians, such as St Thomas Aquinas and St John Paul II. Further chapters consider dignity within Renaissance art and sacred music. The volume shows that dignity is also a contemporary issue by analysing situations where the traditional understanding has been challenged by philosophical and policy developments. To this end, further essays look at the role of dignity in discussions about transhumanism, religious freedom, robotics and medicine.Grounded in the principal Christian traditions of Catholicism, Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, and Protestantism, this book offers an interdisciplinary and cross-period approach to a timely topic. It validates the notion of human dignity and offers an introduction to the field, while also challenging it.
John Loughlin is a Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, UK and Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge, UK.
List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction, John Loughlin1. ‘So God Created Humanity in His own Image’ (Genesis 1.27). What Does The Bible Mean and What Have People Thought it Meant? John Day2. The Pre-Christian Greek and Roman Notions of Human Dignity, Josef Lössl3. Christ as Imago Dei – A Missed Opportunity of Ante-Nicene Christian Theology, Vladimir Latinovic4. The Holy Trinity as Source of Human Dignity According to St Thomas Aquinas, Richard Conrad5. Human Dignity and Human Wretchedness from St Irenaeus to Pico della Mirandola, John Loughlin6. The Beauty of the Person in Christian Thought and Art, Timothy Verdon7. Western Christian Sacred Music and Human Dignity, Jonathan Arnold8. Human Dignity, Equality, and Liberty in Protestant Thought, John Witte, Jr9. The Dignity of the Ancients and the Dignity of the Moderns, John Milbank10. Human Dignity inJohn Paul II’sPersonalist Philosophy, Miguel Acosta11. Religious Freedom and Dignity, Roger Trigg12. Human Dignity in a Biotechnological Age, Michael Burdett13. Bioethics and the Secular Belief of Inherent Human Dignity, Calum MacKellarIndex