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Conformed to the Image of His Son: Reconsidering Paul’s Theology of Glory in Romans is unavailable, but you can change that!

With its soaring affirmations and profound statements of salvation in Christ, Romans 8 is a high point in Pauline theology. But what does Paul mean when in 8:29 he speaks of being “conformed to the image of his Son”? Remarkably, there has been little scholarly attention awarded to this Pauline statement of the goal of salvation. And yet in Christian piety, preaching, and theology, this is a...

But a problem seems to exist, one that confronted me in the early days of my research into what was then a larger examination of the themes of Genesis 1–3 in Paul’s letters. I began to notice a wide swath of interpretations of the phrase and no solidly substantiating arguments for any of them. Within both popular Christianity and academic New Testament studies, there is little agreement as to what Paul means by the arcane or, at a minimum, ambiguous phrase. This lack of agreement is due in part to
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