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Michelangelo's portrayal on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel of the creation of Adam by God has become a visual icon of all of this. The theological doctrine is encapsulated in the statement that 'God created man in his own...


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in the Sistine Chapel.


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Detail from Creation of Adam.

In one photograph we get a blurry echo of Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam from the Sistine Chapel. Here it's two hands almost touching underwater, one clutching a ball of burning light. In a related picture – included in...
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At such moments, he asks, what can one do but reach out one's finger, like Adam's reaching out in the Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling painting, and hope that God reciprocates? True faith is to have doubts yet forge on anyway. Or as Anne LaMott says, the opposite of doubt is not certainty but faith.... Michelangelo, "The Creation of Adam". This entry was posted in Thomas (R. S.) and tagged "Threshold", Doubt, R. S. Thomas, Religion, Resurrection. Bookmark the...
creation of adam sistine chapel michelangelo