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Critical biblical scholarship as developed and defined since the mid-eighteenth century has played a significant and welcome role in pressing us to take biblical texts seriously on their own terms and diverse contexts. With the postmodern turn, additional questions have surfaced—including the theological and ecclesial location of biblical interpretation, the significance of canon and creed for...

Therefore when Paul says that believers are transformed into the image of Christ, he does not mean that they are transformed into Christ’s deity; he means, rather, that they are transformed into Christ’s perfect humanity.13 But is this view valid? Are believers only transformed into the anthropological image which Christ is, as opposed to Christ’s theological image? Does Paul in 2 Cor 3:18 actually separate out the two images in Christ, applying only one to believers? I will argue here that no such
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