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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...

enduring echoes of the liturgy of creation throughout the canon. The first table is just a mere thirty-four verses and yet its general framework as well as its key themes reoccur time and again in the canon.7 This is noticeable in part by the recurring themes of ‘creation and its hosts’ in every major section of canonical material.8 Likewise the recurrence of Sabbath themes across the canon argues for theological reckoning of the first table beyond its immediate context.9 As well, the implicit temple
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