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- Clines provides a good synopsis: The image of God, when applied to a living person, is understood almost exclusively of the king. As in Mesopotamia, so also in Egypt, if a god is spoken of at all as being imaged in living human form, there is only one person who can be regarded as the image of the god, namely the king.
www.cbeinternational.org/resource/the-image-of-god-as-a-statement-of-mutuality-an-illustration/The Image of God as a Statement of Mutuality: An Illustration
HUMANITY AS THE IMAGE OF GOD* David J.A. Clines The Old Testament references to the concept of humanity as the image of God are tantalizing in their brevity and scarcity; we find only the fundamental sentence in Gen. 1.26 ‘Let us make humanity in our image after our likeness’, a further reference to humankind’s creation ‘in the ...
- David Clines
Apr 29, 2024 · The image of God is the foundational human doctrine, setting guardrails for interpretations of later texts. Through the concept of imago Dei, Genesis 1 asserts mutuality. Indeed, the command to rule as God’s images, like co-directing, was a command to share equal authority.
The Image of God in Man. D. Clines. Published in Tyndale Bulletin 1 May 1968. Philosophy. The Old Testament references to the doctrine of the image of God in man are tantalizing in their brevity and scarcity; we find only the fundamental sentence in Genesis 1:26 'Let us make men in our image after our likeness', a further reference to man's ...
THE IMAGE OF GOD IN MAN By D. J. A. CLINES The Old Testament references to the doctrine of the image of God in man are tantalizing in their brevity and scarcity; we find only the fundamental sentence in Genesis 1:26 'Let us make men in our image after our likeness', a further reference to
A Clines. Only by considering what meaning the ‘image’ could have had for the author of Genesis 1 can we discover how precisely to use the term in expounding the biblical revelation.
The Old Testament references to the doctrine of the image of God in man are tantalizing in their brevity and scarcity; we find only the fundamental sentence in Genesis 1:26 ‘Let us make men in our image after our likeness’, a further reference to man’s creation ‘in the likeness of God’ in Genesis 5:2, and a final statement in Genesis ...
This document summarizes the history of interpretations of the image of God in man based on references in Genesis. It discusses how interpretations have located the image in various spiritual or physical qualities of humans, reflecting the anthropology and theology of different time periods.
