“The glory of God is man”, affirms the Talmud (Derech Eretz Zutta 10,5); and St Irenaeus states the same: “The glory of God is a living man.”15 The human person forms the centre and crown of God's creation. Man's unique position in the cosmos is indicated above all by the fact that he is made “in the image and likeness” of God (Gen. 1:26). Man is a finite expression of God's infinite self-expression.
