Abstract
Does God smile?
Imago Dei means “the image of God.” In psychology, affect is used to define emotion that motivates behavior. Affect of the Imago Dei is an attempt to capture the physicality of God’s divine expression. When God created Adam, as portrayed in Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam, He created a face that could provoke powerful responses— a face that could communicate what language could not. Is this face made literally in the image of God? Or has God created human facial expression unique from Himself-- to give us something He does not have?
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Affect of the Imago Dei
Does God smile?
Imago Dei means “the image of God.” In psychology, affect is used to define emotion that motivates behavior. Affect of the Imago Dei is an attempt to capture the physicality of God’s divine expression. When God created Adam, as portrayed in Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam, He created a face that could provoke powerful responses— a face that could communicate what language could not. Is this face made literally in the image of God? Or has God created human facial expression unique from Himself-- to give us something He does not have?