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Identity and Idolatry - The Image of God and Its Inversion (Paperback)
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Identity and Idolatry - The Image of God and Its Inversion (Paperback)
Series: New Studies in Biblical Theology, 36
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One of Desiring God's Top 15 Books "So God created man in his own
image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he
created them." (Genesis 1:27) Genesis 1:26-27 has served as the
locus of most theological anthropologies in the central Christian
tradition. However, Richard Lints observes that too rarely have
these verses been understood as conceptually interwoven with the
whole of the prologue materials of Genesis 1. The construction of
the cosmic temple strongly hints that the "image of God" language
serves liturgical functions. Lints argues that "idol" language in
the Bible is a conceptual inversion of the "image" language of
Genesis 1. These constructs illuminate each other, and clarify the
canon's central anthropological concerns. The question of human
identity is distinct, though not separate, from the question of
human nature; the latter has far too frequently been read into the
biblical use of image. Lints shows how the "narrative" of human
identity runs from creation (imago Dei) to fall (the golden
calf/idol, Exodus 32) to redemption (Christ as perfect image,
Colossians 1:15-20). The biblical-theological use of image/idol is
a thread through the canon that highlights the movements of
redemptive history. In the concluding chapters of this New Studies
in Biblical Theology volume, Lints interprets the use of idolatry
as it emerges in the secular prophets of the nineteenth century,
and examines the recent renaissance of interest in idolatry with
its conceptual power to explain the "culture of desire." Addressing
key issues in biblical theology, the works comprising New Studies
in Biblical Theology are creative attempts to help Christians
better understand their Bibles. The NSBT series is edited by D. A.
Carson, aiming to simultaneously instruct and to edify, to interact
with current scholarship and to point the way ahead.
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