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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...

▪ Jonathan Maccabeus: καὶ ἐδόξασεν αὐτὸν ὁ βασιλεὺς καὶ ἔγραψεν αὐτὸν τῶν πρώτων φίλων καὶ ἔθετο αὐτὸν στρατηγὸν καὶ μεριδάρχην (1 Macc 10:65)104 ▪ Israel: ἔθνη ἃ οὐκ ᾔδεισάν σε ἐπικαλέσονταί σε καὶ λαοί οἳ οὐκ ἐπίστανταί σε ἐπὶ σὲ καταφεύξονται ἕνεκεν τοῦ θεοῦ σου τοῦ ἁγίου Ισραηλ ὅτι ἐδόξασέν σε (Is 55:5)105 ▪ Father: ὁ γὰρ κύριος ἐδόξασεν πατέρα ἐπὶ τέκνοις (Sir 3:2)106 Two points of significance are notable here. First, in each of the examples for
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