God brings Adam to life by touch in the Sistine Chapel

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Archbishop Zani says of Michelangelo’s painting in the Sistine Chapel:

“The finger of God encounters the finger of man but they do not touch[.] … [W]e see God who gives man strength, liberty and life but leaves him free. It is an encounter of freedom where there is a presence of God that does not The Archbishop is unable to appreciate the sense of movement and drama in the painting which captures the moment just before God gives Adam a soul. The fingers are not touching but we see that this is about to happen.
 
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