Created In God's Image

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Iranaeus - what was lost at fall

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Man lost God's likeness but retained God's image - doesn't bear God's image fully until regenerated

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Irenaeus - view of image

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Image is man's nature as a rational and free being

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Irenaeus viewed man as having this many parts

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three: body, soul, and spirit

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Aquinas - view of fall

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Man lost supernatural grace that allowed his reason and intellect to rule. Fallen man retains lesser version of image

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Aquinas - view of image

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Image consists of man's intellect/reason

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Calvin - view of fall

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man lost supernatural gifts of faith, love, charity, etc. Image was all but obliterated by fall

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Calvin - view of image

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Image is primarily the soul

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Barth - view of fall

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Doesn't recognize a historical fall (along with Brunner)

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Barth - view of image

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Image consists primarily in man's capacity for relationship

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Brunner - view of fall

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Doesn't recognize a historical fall (along with Barth)

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Brunner - view of image

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Man lost image materially (his ability for a proper response) but not formally (his responsibility to God) through sinfulness

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Berkhouer - view of fall

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Man lost image but retained a "continuing humanity" (what traditional Reformed theologians called the "retained broader image.")

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Berkhouer - view of image

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Sees image as dynamic, not static. Image is VERB - doesn't consist in structural qualities that resemble God but in concretely visible sanctification.

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Two basic senses/original responsibilities of "imaging"

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to mirror and to represent

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Berkhof's restricted (narrower) image

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"the spiritual qualities with which man was created, namely, true knowledge, righteousness, and holiness."

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Berkhof's comprehensive (broader) image

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Man is a "spiritual being, rational, moral, and immortal; in the body, not as a material substance, but as the organ of the soul; and in man's dominion over the lower creation."

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Reformed theologians usually speak about the narrower image having been

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completely lost through man's fall into sin.

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Reformed theologians usually speak about the broader image having been

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not lost but corrupted and perverted by sin.

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He questions the distinction between the broader and narrower aspects of the image of God

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Berkouwer

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idealistic anthropology

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humans are basically spirit

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materialistic anthropology

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humans are mainly body/matter

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Skinner said

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One's conduct is determined by environment

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scholastic view synthesized

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Aristotelean view and Christian view

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application of scholastic view to sin

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sins of flesh worse than sins of spirit

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To be a person means to have

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independence - not absolute but relative

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Bib. ref. "Let us make man in our image."

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Gen. 1:26-28

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Bib. ref. "When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. Male and female..."

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Gen. 5:1-3

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Bib. ref. - murder forbidden because of image

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Gen. 9:6

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Bib. ref. tongue - men created in God's likeness

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James 3:9

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Bib. ref. "He is the firstborn over all creation"

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Col. 1:15

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The goal of redemption

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to be fully conformed to the image of Christ

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Image of God is not _______ but ______

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static/dynamic

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The chief characteristic of the image of God is

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love

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Christians should see themselves as people who are ________, though not yet __________

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genuinely new/totally new

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Renewal in the image of God is not just an____________ but an ________________

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indicative/imperative

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Aspects of "likeness" seen in creation account

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dominion, male and female, personhood

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Aspects of "blessing" seen in creation account

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dominion, marriage and children

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Psalm 8

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You made him a little lower than... angels? God?

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To find the chief characteristics of the image of God, we must

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Look to Christ, where we find that the chief characteristic is LOVE

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________ is at the heart of Brunner's understanding of man and of his purpose for his existence

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love

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Man's true function, according to Brunner

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having loving fellowship with God

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Brunner's distinction of image seperates it into

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formal and material senses

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Brunner's formal aspect of the image of God

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man's responsibility - his capacity to respond to god's love, his need to give an answer to God

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Parts of Brunner's "formal image" include

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freedom, reason, conscience, and language

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Brunner sees the "formal image of God" as the ____ sense of the image, and says man can never loose this sense of image

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O.T.

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The material aspect of the image of God , according to Brunner, is

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man's ability to respond rightly (give the right answer) to God.

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According to Brunner, man has lost this wholly, not partially.

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The material aspect of the image of God.

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The restorations of the material aspect of the image of God is, to Brunner, at the heart of

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the doctrine of reconcilliation

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According to Brunner, God did not intend that

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the image should be split into two aspects.

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The Father of neo-orthodoxy

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Karl Barth

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The image of God is not to be found in man's intellect or reason, or in man in any structural sense at all, according to

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Karl Barth

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For Barth, the image of God is found in

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the confrontational relationship between man and man and man and womrn, because it shows a similar capacity for relationhip with man as man has with God.

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For Barth there is not between God and man an ______ of _____ but an ______ of ________.

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analogy of being/analogy of relation

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Barth on loss of image

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Barth does not belive the image of God was lost in Fall.

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For Barth, the image of God cannot really be renewed because

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how would one "renew" a "capacity" for relationship?

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Berkhouer was primarily concerned with man's ________ rather than with ____________.

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function/who he is

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Hookema believes that man's ___________ is primary and his ____________ is secondary.

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function/structure