The Imago Dei as Human Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Imago Dei as Human Identity write by Ryan S. Peterson. This book was released on 2016-01-21. The Imago Dei as Human Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Theologians and Old Testament scholars have been at odds with respect to the best interpretation of the imago Dei. Theologians have preferred substantialistic (e.g., image as soul or mind) or relational interpretations (e.g., image as relational personhood) and Old Testament scholars have preferred functional interpretations (e.g., image as kingly dominion). The disagreements revolve around a number of exegetical questions. How do we best read Genesis 1 in its literary, historical, and cultural contexts? How should it be read theologically? How should we read Genesis 1 as a canonical text? This book charts a path through these disagreements by offering a dogmatically coherent and exegetically sound canonical interpretation of the image of God. Peterson argues that the fundamental claim of Genesis 1:26–28 is that humanity is created to image God actively in the world. “Made in the image of God” is an identity claim. As such, it tells us about humanity’s relationship with God and the rest of creation, what humanity does in the world, and what humanity is to become. Understanding the imago Dei as human identity has the further advantage of illuminating humanity’s ontology. Canonically, knowledge of the contours and purpose of human existence develops alongside God’s self-revelation. Tracing this development, Peterson demonstrates the coherence of the OT and NT texts that refer to the image of God. In the NT, Jesus Christ is understood as the realization of God’s image in the world and therefore the fulfillment of the description of humanity’s identity in Genesis 1. In addition to its specific focus on resolving interdisciplinary tensions for Christian interpretation of the imago Dei, the argument of the book has important implications for ethics, the doctrine of sin, and the doctrine of revelation.
The Liberating Image
The Liberating Image - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Liberating Image write by J. Richard Middleton. This book was released on 2005-03. The Liberating Image available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offers a deeply informed take on a key Christian doctrine and its interpretation and relevance today.
Imago Dei - Bible Study Book
Imago Dei - Bible Study Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imago Dei - Bible Study Book write by Mike Cosper. This book was released on 2019-02. Imago Dei - Bible Study Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Learn how to view the image of God in three different ways: biblically, relationally, and missionally.
Imago Dei
Imago Dei - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imago Dei write by Jaroslav Pelikan. This book was released on 2011-09-26. Imago Dei available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. His A.W. Mellon lectures in the Fine Arts, delivered in 1987.
Dignity and Destiny
Dignity and Destiny - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dignity and Destiny write by John F. Kilner. This book was released on 2015-01-08. Dignity and Destiny available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Misunderstandings about what it means for humans to be created in God's image have wreaked devastation throughout history -- for example, slavery in the U. S., genocide in Nazi Germany, and the demeaning of women everywhere. In Dignity and Destiny John Kilner explores what the Bible itself teaches about humanity being in God's image. He discusses in detail all of the biblical references to the image of God, interacts extensively with other work on the topic, and documents how misunderstandings of it have been so problematic. People made according to God's image, Kilner says, have a special connection with God and are intended to be a meaningful reflection of him. Because of sin, they don't actually reflect him very well, but Kilner shows why the popular idea that sin has damaged the image of God is mistaken. He also clarifies the biblical difference between being God's image (which Christ is) and being in God's image (which humans are). He explains how humanity's creation and renewal in God's image are central, respectively, to human dignity and destiny. Locating Christ at the center of what God's image means, Kilner charts a constructive way forward and reflects on the tremendously liberating impact that a sound understanding of the image of God can have in the world today.
