The Mind of the Maker, Chapter 2: The Image of God
On the author of Genesis chapter 1:
“…when we turn back to see what he says about the original upon which the “image” of God was modeled, we find only the single assertion, “God created.” That characteristic common to God and has is apparently that: the desire and ability to make things.
This we may say is a matephor like other statement about God. So is is, but it is non the words for that. All language about God must, as St. Thomas Aquinas pointed out, necessarily be analogical.”
—Dorothy Sayers
What is the image of God? In what ways are we like God?
What human metaphors help us understand God?
How is God’s way of creation different that ours?
“It is the artist who, more than other men, is able to create something out of nothing. A whole artistic work is immeasurably more than the sum of its parts.”
What are the two kinds of creation?
What is thought creation?
What is material creation?
Which comes first?
Which is limitless?
God created the world by imagination.
—Nikolai Berdyaev
“Our minds are not infinite; and as the volume of the world’s knowledge increases, we tend more and more to confine ourselves, each to his special sphere of interested and to the specialized metaphors belonging to it.”
This is from a collection of posts based on Dorothy Sayer’s work, The Mind of the Maker. These aren’t chapter summaries, but highlight notes, favorite quotes, and questions for group discussion. Don’t have anyone to discuss with? Get the book. Let’s read it. I’ll discuss it with you.