Patrick+FO

Write a working outline in semi-proper outline format. This does not need to be a sentence outline, key phrases are okay. Consider were quotes may go and write page numbers. Consider where sources may go and reference them.

I. Introduction --Define Imago Dei/ loosely connect the concept of Imago Dei with Frankenstein
 * A. Thesis: Mary Shelley asserts, through her protagonist Victor Frankenstein, the concept of Imago Dei, affirming the human participation in the enterprise of creation.

II. With good intention, Frankenstein pursues his fateful enterprise. A consequentialist enterprise (weight given to the consequences in evaluating the rightness/wrongness of actions). Frankenstein created the Monster in the image of man, in an attempt to further the boundaries of the knowledge base.
 * A. Sub point: We can draw a parallel between this and how God created humans in his image. This fact, in biblical terms, is the basis of the most fundamental difference between humans and other creatures on earth. This points to humankind's awesome destiny, purpose.
 * *1. Evidence 1: Page 82
 * *2. Evidence 2 with critic: (Genesis 1:26-27; 2:7)
 * B. Sub point: Because we are in the image of God, we are afraid of the possible consequence./ Frankenstein describes the 'lawful' academic pursuit. (And is certainly skeptical of such limitations)
 * *1. Evidence: Page 83 Last paragraph

III. God is the Examiner, the cruelest of kinds. If God is the omniscient being, he must have known that the original sin would occur. The moral difficulty is the test of faith. Alluding to the Calvinist/Lutheran take on the "remnant of Imago Dei" [Shelley's monster face moral difficulties]
 * A. Sub point: A perversion of the Fall--Shelley hints on the integration of Calvinist ideals--when the image of Frankenstein creating the monster parallels Adam's picking of the apple
 * *1. Paradise Lost
 * *2. Genesis
 * *3. The Problem of Pain (CS Lewis)

IV. For Aquinas, the //imago Dei// is the basis for participation in the divine life. The image of God is realized principally in an act of contemplation in the intellect ( //S.Th.// I q.93 a.4 and 7). This conception can be distinguished from that of Bonaventure, for whom the image is realized chiefly through the will in the religious act of man ( //Sent// . II d.16 a.2 q.3).