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Identity and Idolatry: The Image of God and Its Inversion is unavailable, but you can change that!

Genesis 1:26-27 has served as the locus of most theological anthropologies in the central Christian tradition. However, Richard Lints observes that too rarely have these verses been understood as conceptually interwoven with the whole of the prologue materials of Genesis 1. The construction of the cosmic temple strongly hints that the “image of God” language serves liturgical functions. Lints...

appearance of God in human form on the throne. YHWH is recorded as saying to Moses, ‘you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live’ (Exod. 33:20). God is said to have a ‘right hand’, ‘ears to hear’ and ‘feet’ to walk.21 Each of these in turn points to the unexpected conclusion that God communicates that those human forms may appropriately be ascribed to him. Undoubtedly these do not imply straightforwardly that God has a body, and must be viewed as consistent with the common claim in
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