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Magisterial, up-to-date study of human beings in the image of God. Misunderstandings about what it means for humans to be created in God’s image have wreaked devastation throughout history—for example, slavery in the U. S., genocide in Nazi Germany, and the demeaning of women everywhere. In Dignity and Destiny John Kilner explores what the Bible itself teaches about humanity being in God’s...

reason, human virtues such as righteousness, or human functions such as rulership over creation. The result has been “problematic if not disastrous, time and again,” notes ethicist David Gushee.91 People who are lowest on the reason, righteousness, rulership, or relationship scale are deemed least like God and least worthy of respect and protection—a conclusion that makes good sense if being in God’s image is about current capacities, virtues, functions, and/or relationships. This approach to God’s
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