Like many Americans, I’ve been refreshing my knowledge of the American Revolution in anticipation of July 4 this year. And, at the same time, I’m finding myself comparing the Founders’ notions of human dignity with the way the term is frequently being used these days, even within the Church.
Like most pre-modern thinkers, the Founders believed that, in each of us, there is something divine (“Men have been endowed by their Creator. . .”). As the pagan Stoic Seneca, much read by both the Founders and almost all Christian thinkers until modern times, put it, Homo res sacra homini (“Man is a sacred thing to man.”).
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