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Instress is a concept about individuality and uniqueness derived by Gerard Manley Hopkins from the ideas of the medieval philosopher Duns Scotus.〔Chevigny, Bell Gale. Instress and Devotion in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins ''Victorian Studies'' Vol. 9, No. 2 (Dec., 1965), pp. 141-153.〕
This is related to a logocentric theology and the Imago Dei. A logocentric theology of creation is based on correlation of the Genesis account and John 1. Since all creation is by the Word (divine fiat) human identity in God's image is grounded in God's speech and no two creation words are ever spoken alike. This idea is mirrored by JRR Tolkien who compares the Creator to a perfect prism and creation to the refraction of perfect light. Tolkien writes, :'Dear Sir,' I said – 'Although now long estranged, :Man is not wholly lost nor wholly changed :Dis-grace he may be, yet is not de-throned, :and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned: :Man, Sub-creator, the refracted Light :through whom is splintered from a single White :to many hues, and endlessly combined :in living shapes that move from mind to mind.〔J. R. R. Tolkien, ''On Fairy-Stories'', in ''Essays Presented to Charles Williams'', CS Lewis Ed.〕 The idea is strongly embraced by the Trappist monk and author Thomas Merton who admired both Scotus and Hopkins. In ''New Seeds of Contemplation'' Merton equates the unique "thingness" of a thing, its inscape, to sanctity. The result is that holiness itself is grounded in God's idea of being. To the extent that any "thing" (include humans) honors God's unique idea of them they are holy. Holiness thus connects to "vocation" (from the Latin vocare for "voice") in two ways. First, God creates through the word; and second, when being responds rightly to God's speech by expressing his unique word the result is Holiness. ==See also== *Inscape 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Instress」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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