Scripture uses all five of these categories with specific reference to the imago Dei, even if all are important dimensions of the human person. The Reformers, especially Luther and Calvin, followed the lead of the NT, comparing especially Colossians 3:10 with Ephesians 4:24, and advocated righteousness and holiness as the essence of God’s image.12 This understandably led to the conviction that such an image was severely corrupted if not entirely effaced by the fall, but that it is in the process