Core Identity

Then God said, “Let us make humanity in our image to resemble us

so that they may take charge of the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky,

the livestock, all the earth, and all the crawling things on earth.”

God created humanity in God’s own image,

in the divine image God created them,

male and female God created them.

(Genesis 1:26-27 Common English Bible)

Questions of identity - Who am I? Why am I here? - have often plagued the minds of philosophers and theologians. Since the Enlightenment, we have received various attempts to answer these questions - some have been helpful, some not so muc...