JOINT ATTENTION AND THE <i>IMAGO TRINITATIS</i>

Abstract This article incorporates into Christian theological anthropology some recent findings of a school scientific researchers in the fields comparative and developmental psychology. These researchers—namely, Michael Tomasello, Malinda Carpenter, others affiliated with Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology—have advanced theologically significant hypothesis about basic difference between social‐cognitive capacities human beings those other animals. Their is that are distinguished from animals, part, because an ability to share attention conspecifics unique way, namely, by means capacity called joint attention. In keeping procedures modern science, they have tested verified their through laboratory experiments on nonhuman primates (chimpanzees particular) (infants toddlers). as scientists, however, do not attempt show relevance anthropology. shows how sheds new light upon doctrine created image Trinity (imago Trinitatis).