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According to Scripture, humankind was created in the image of God. Hoekema discusses the implications of this theme, devoting several chapters to the biblical teaching on God’s image, the teaching of philosophers and theologians through the ages, and his own theological analysis. This text is suitable for seminary-level anthropology courses, yet accessible to educated laypeople. It includes an...

light of this understanding. (2) Calvin holds that man’s dominion over the earth is not part of the image of God. Yet, as we have seen, this dominion is presented as an aspect of the image in Genesis 1:26. (3) Calvin does not do full justice to man’s having been created male and female as an essential aspect of the image of God, and to the implications of this aspect for our understanding of the image. We turn now to the views of a more recent theologian, Karl Barth, often called the father
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