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A good summary of the Catholic doctrine on Creation is found in this section of the book. The mai... more A good summary of the Catholic doctrine on Creation is found in this section of the book. The main point of this section reveals that creation is a relationship and a participation with the Divine Being. It further states that Creation Out of Nothing is a profound way to express the idea of the vision of a relationship between God and the world. It also reviews the concept of cause and effect in the works of St. Thomas, saying that creation is an emanation from the Universal and Efficient Cause which effects creatures. This argument resolves the Augustinian reaction on emanation (which conflicts with the doctrine of Creation Form Nothing), stating that creatures need not be equals of God through emanation, but rather complete effects of a cause. These thoughts are of great help for the second chapter of this work. This part of the book which deals on the systematic theology about creation effectively presents a historical overview of the development of doctrine of Creation in the Roman Catholic perspective. Anne Clifford surveys this progress by taking into account the notion of creation in the bible, to the history of the Church, and contemporary applications of the doctrine with Science and Technology. The author presents the work in a chronological consideration of notions, concepts and theological opinions on Creation. She presents a rather comprehensive, but not much of analysis and comparison, of creation. The work is extensive and presents many presuppositions about theology and science. Only the part considering the development of the doctrine in the history of the Church will be considered, in comparison to the author's exhaustive approach. Fichtner, Joseph. Man the Image of God. New York: Alba House, 1978. This book presents the concept of the image of God in relation to the covenant of Yahweh and Israel. Apart from the biblical theme, it also presents the concept of the image of God according to early Christian writings. Fichtner traces the origin of the development of early Christian Anthropology by taking into consideration the patterns of thought that were prevalent at that part of history. He points out that the early discourses about Christian Anthropology were a product of the reaction against Greek paganistic thought. Also, he considers the view of St. Thomas Aquinas and other scholastics. The fundamental concept presented by the author is that man's destiny is to be like Christ, the perfect image of God, who reconciled Divine and human nature in himself and continues to make man more and more like the image of God by the action of the Holy Spirit. The author presents a straightforward approach at dealing with the concept of Imago Dei. His historical presentation of the development of the concept is simple and a clear-cut treatment of facts from original sources and historical accounts. There is not much of analysis in his work; just a laying-down of the things one needs to know. This book is used in the third chapter of the work and is used as a source for the historical treatment of the concept of the imago Dei. Hontiveros, Eduardo. "Man as the Image of God", The Creator: A textbook in Theological Anthropology, Loyola School of Theology Textbook Series. Quezon City: Loyola School of Theology, 1998. This textbook contains chapters dealing with man as the image of God, Creation and the Creator and the purpose and Freedom of Creation. It emphasizes that basic tenet of faith that man is the image of God which is his highest dignity. To be the image of God is to be in a relationship with God himself. It puts forth that the significance of this O"Meara, Thomas. Thomas Aquinas: Theologian. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997. O'Meara provides a commentary on the ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas. The Third part of the book deals with the theological world of Aquinas and is rather a good summary of it. The first section of this part of the work presents the first of Thomas' major themes: that is, God. The author reiterates that God is ever present as he is mirrored by the beauty of creation, and He can only be confined to our limited understanding by analogy. God is the excellence of all the perfections we see in the world. It also discusses and comments on creation and the choice of man as the image of God. Man, it says, is a receptacle of grace and holiness. He is a reminder that the goal of faith and religion is perfection or beauty. This chapter of this book is used in almost all personality by means of it. 241 Art speaks to us. No wonder people can stand or sit in front of a museum painting for hours at a time, listening to and recognizing what the artist wishes to reveal in his artwork. Beauty reveals! And much more for religious art, beauty serves the eternal Beauty by way of revelation. -Beautiful art is also a sacred word in its own right, a direct mediation of encounter with God,‖ 242 says Viladesau. Just as words mediate our communication and reveal our thoughts to others, beauty can lead us to the Divine.