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Traditionally, man was viewed as divine, or as a mixture of the divine and the devil, or as devilish; in conformity with my anti-all-or-nothing attitude I shall attempt to present man as nothing of the sort, but rather as something neither devilish nor divine, yet which struggles to come nearer to the divine than he is.1
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© 1977 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, The Netherlands
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Agassi, J. (1977). Man in the Image of God. In: Towards a Rational Philosophical Anthropology. The Van Leer Jerusalem Foundation Series, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1095-5_6
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