Daily Signet

It is a foundational Christuman theme that we are imago Dei and “each becomes Human by becoming a creator, created in the image of our Creator.” I think of an image impressioned on photographic film carrying the likeness of the original but requiring a process to develop the image to give it full color and dimension. The imago Dei is an image impressioned on our soul and the process of mixing that image with the earth of us allows us to give full color, full dimension, full expression to our origo—that which is most original to us is at the same time most like the imago Dei.  This is not confined to a snapshot image—the noun of God imbedded in God’s direct object—man. Instead the development of the human being is revealed through the imagining—the imagination of God.

This verb form of the Creator creating is the same “verb form” who moved over the surface of the waters and from out of the formless and the void and the darkness called into being light. This verb pattern imagining waters that teem with swarms of living creatures and fashioning skies that fill up with flocks of birds is the verb pattern that some call “flow” but is best conceived as an active imagination—active in and upon all varieties of media, active in and upon all those creatures who are called to become human.                                           

Benjamin H. Martin

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