{"id":1082,"date":"2022-08-17T18:45:53","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T18:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/iacs\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2023-06-22T13:28:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T13:28:16","slug":"the-image-of-god-the-gardener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/iacs\/2022\/08\/17\/the-image-of-god-the-gardener\/","title":{"rendered":"The Image of God, the Gardener"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/iacs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2022\/08\/jeremy-cai-ucYWe5mzTMU-unsplash-768x432.png\"\n          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class=\"size-medium wp-image-1083\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/iacs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/01\/NightPrayer-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/iacs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/01\/NightPrayer-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/iacs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/01\/NightPrayer.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cNight Prayer\u201d by Michael Cook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The view that the human person is created in \u201cthe image of God\u201d has played an important role in the Christian tradition, providing a foundational symbol for affirming the intrinsic dignity of the human person. The symbolic language of \u201cimage of God\u201d is rooted, of course, in the first creation narrative of Genesis, where people and communities of faith are told explicitly that God creates the human person in God\u2019s image (<span style=\"color: #990000\"><a style=\"color: #990000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Genesis%201%3A27&amp;version=NIV\">Genesis 1:27<\/a><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p>In the second creation narrative of Genesis, however, there exists an implicit\u00a0<i>imago<\/i>\u00a0<i>Dei<\/i>\u00a0anthropology. Rather than making the outright claim that the human person is created in the image of God, the author of the second creation narrative suggests this idea through allusion. This deserves careful consideration. The key to interpreting the allusive language at work here lies in verse\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Genesis+2%3A15&amp;version=NIV\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #990000;text-decoration: underline\">2:15<\/span><\/span><\/a>. In this verse, God calls the human person to \u201ccultivate and care\u201d or (acknowledging an alternative translation of the Hebrew) to \u201cserve and keep\u201d the garden.<\/p>\n<p>Here, God gives the human person the symbolic vocation of \u201cgardener\u201d \u2014 calling the person to care for the soil and all that comes from the soil. What is particularly striking about this call is that in the preceding verses of this narrative, God is depicted as the gardener. The Lord God plants the garden in Eden and makes the nourishing and beautiful trees of the garden grow (2:8-9). God also forms the living creatures of Eden (including the human) out of the garden\u2019s life-giving soil. Thus, in the second creation story, it is precisely in serving and caring for \u201cthe garden of the world\u201d that the human comes to most fully inhabit the image of God the Gardener. Indeed, in this narrative, one finds that love of God is expressed through the closely linked loves of neighbor and earth.<\/p>\n<p>The sensibilities of the second creation narrative of Genesis are captured beautifully in Michael Cook\u2019s painting \u201cNight Prayer.\u201d There, \u201cthe human one\u201d lies at rest upon the fertile soil from which God had formed Adam. The folds of the clothes and body mimic the folds of the earth itself, subtly emphasizing the closeness of the human to the earth. In repose, the person\u2019s arms encircle a shoot of vegetation emerging from the earth as a parent would cradle a newborn child. The image conveys a deep sense of intimacy between the human and creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-quote \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-quote\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"quote-container\">\n  <svg height=\"29\" viewBox=\"0 0 36 29\" width=\"36\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"m19.7 28.6h16.2v-15.5h-6.7l6.7-13.1h-7.5l-8.7 14zm-19.7 0h16.3v-15.5h-6.8l6.8-13.1h-7.7l-8.6 14z\" fill=\"#fc0\"\/><\/svg>\n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>In this narrative, one finds that love of God is expressed through the closely linked loves of neighbor and earth.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n  \n  <\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p>To be clear, with my interpretation of Genesis 2, I am not suggesting that the vocation of gardener ought to be taken in a literalist sense. I do not maintain that the symbol of gardener needs to be strictly identified with an agrarian lifestyle. Rather, the symbol points to an existential posture, one of service and care for creation. Thus, it is possible for an engineer who uses her knowledge in prudence and love to participate in the work of the gardener. Likewise, it is possible that a farmer, utilizing destructive farming methods, may fail to respond properly to God\u2019s call. Given this, the work of gardener requires careful discernment. This is especially true in a world in which the globalized economy and cultures of consumerism tend to drive all forms of praxis toward ambiguous, if not outrightly destructive, outcomes. Given this, the call to the gardner\u2019s work \u2014 the invitation to inhabit the image of God more deeply \u2014\u00a0is also always a call to conversion. Amid the current ecological and social emergencies, this call is particularly pressing.<\/p>\n<p><i>Editor\u2019s note: Daniel P. Castillo, Ph.D., is director of the Masters of Theological Studies Program at Loyola University Maryland. His research interests include liberation theology and environmental ethics. In 2019, he published \u201c<\/i><span style=\"color: #990000;\"><a style=\"color: #990000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/an-ecological-theology-of-liberation-daniel-p-castillo\/1130891992\"><i>An Ecological Theology of Liberation: Salvation and Political Ecology.\u201d<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":1756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[44,45,143,155],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-insights","tag-gardener","tag-genesis","tag-insights","tag-the-image-of-god"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Image of God, the Gardener<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dan Castillo, Ph.D. shares reflections on the image of God as a gardener, one who serves and cares for creation.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/iacs\/2022\/08\/17\/the-image-of-god-the-gardener\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Image of God, the Gardener - 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