In this book, Chris Kugler situates Paul's imago Dei theology
within the complex and contested context of second-temple Judaism
and early Christianity in the Greco-Roman world. He argues that
Paul adapted the Jewish wisdom and Middle Platonic traditions
regarding divine intermediaries so as to present the preexistent
Jesus as the cosmogonical image of God (according to which Adam
himself was made) and toward which the whole of humanity was
destined. In this way, Paul includes Jesus within the most
exclusive theological category of second-temple Jewish monotheism:
cosmogonical activity. Paul's imago Dei christology, therefore, is
a clear instance of "christological monotheism." Moreover, Kugler
demonstrates that this interpretation of Paul's imago Dei theology
allows for a fresh reading of some of the most contested texts in
Paul's letters: 2 Corinthians 3-4; Romans 7-8; and Colossians
1.15-20; 3.10. He demonstrates that at the rhetorical level, Paul
presents himself and his sympathizers as true philosophers who
attain to the (Middle Platonic) telos of true philosophy: the image
of God; while he presents his opponents as advocates of an empty
and deceitful philosophy.
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