Definition of "creatureliness" [creatureliness]

• The state or quality of being creaturely. (noun)

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• "I have a hard time believing that you are talking about the same kind of creatureliness that has been used to justify slavery, to subjugate women, condemn homosexuality, anathemize birth control, and to pick an example from today's headlines to limit stem cell research."
• "I would hate to lose that kind of humanism within the Unitarian Universalist movement especially since, from Channing's doctrine of human nature forward to today's UU transhumanists, the willingness to move beyond Christian concepts of "creatureliness" has played an important role in Unitarian and Unitarian Universalist advocacy for cremation, family planning, abortion rights, and euthanasia--all issues condemned in their time by the majority of Christians."
• "The ethical aim is to be rid of "creatureliness," and so to be united to God."