Explore the reason why the Catechism looks at the incarnation primarily through the lens of facilitating our adoption as children of God, a premise with much richer and more expansive connotations in the first-century mediterranean vision of adoption.

The 1979 Catechism places human nature in the context of the image of God. It sees the image of God in line with the classic understanding of Augustine as related to specific human cognitive capabilities. In this post, we explore where this sits in the larger Anglican consideration of the image of God and what problems this construal may raise for our understanding of our relationship to God as humans.