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At the end of the twentieth century the forces of race, gender, ethnicity, culture, social status, life-style and sexual preference threaten to disassemble any notion of universal “human nature” or “human condition.” In light of this historical moment, the Christian doctrine of human nature is ripe for rethinking and reformulation. Charles Sherlock sees this theological task as demanding a...

Diagram 2: The structure of the ‘image of God’ in Genesis 1–2 Let me emphasize once more that nowhere are we told precisely what the image of God is. Rather, we have shown to us something of what it means to be made in the image of God. We are given a dynamic model of what being made in the image of God involves, not a static picture of its essence. It entails being called, as members of the human race (corporately male and female, and personally male or female), to live by
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