Relational Anthropology by Olivier Clement and Jurgen Moltmann

The article describes selected questions from theological anthropology including how they were developed by Olivier Clement and Jurgen Moltmann. The interest of both authors was to indicate relationality as the main concept in thinking about human beings. They are interested in depicting certain terms such as person, nature, image, similitude or deification. The authors were chosen because of their similar point of view on anthropology, but also because of the fact that they are from different Christian traditions. The article comes to the conclusion that a human being is not an objective fact which can be analysed with separate terms, but is a unity of different dimensions, which are intrinsically interconnected. In the similar way, this unity is linked to human society, the environment and God. The physical body as the natural part of a human being has a significant rehabilitation in this type of anthropology: it has the same right to redemption as other human dimensions.