“Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.” -Psalm 8:5–8
Man is not the measure of all things. He is in the middle of all things! He’s lower than the divine but possesses dominion over the animal kingdom. Many think of man as homo sapien, homo faber, homo rationalis, or homo economicus. Chiefly, he is homo imago Dei.