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This is the eighth volume to appear in the American edition of Professor Berkouwer's Studies in Dogmatics. Like its predecessors, it stands independently of the series as well as being a part of a larger theological whole. Like the other books, too, this study in theological anthropology, or the Biblical doctrine of man, is a fine example of Reformed theology being defended and developed through...

This convergence of opinion7 is closely related to the increased appreciation of the variety of ways in which Genesis speaks of the image. Genesis 1:26 uses both “tselem” and “demuth,” “image” and “likeness”; Genesis 1:27 and Genesis 9:6 use only “tselem.” And if God’s plan for man (that man should have both image and likeness) was only partially realized by man’s creation in His image (as Origen and others claimed), then it is difficult to explain Genesis 5, which speaks of man’s creation in God’s
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