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Saving this quote for a future writing project.

“Man's inevitable drift toward wrongdoing is … recognized in literature. Such well-known writers of fiction as Fyodor Dostoyevski, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, William Faulkner, Albert Camus, Graham Greene, and William Golding all describe human nature as basically flawed, as imperfect, as inclined to various types of evil, hypocrisy, and sin.” (141)

"The loss of the image of God in the functional sense presupposes the retention of the image in the structural sense. To be a sinner one must be an image-bearer of God—one must be able to reason, to will, to make decisions; a dog, which does not possess the image of God, cannot sin. Man sins with God-imaging gifts."

His note on Christ's miracles that affect nature being a form of excercising dominion scratched an itch.

Calvin was great. Iranaeus was surprisingly good. Boo barth. Boo brunner. Berkhouwer had half of it. Why'd we skip Boston? I imagine he didnt think on the Image specifically?

Argues well that image and likeness are synonymous.

Argues well the two aspects of the image, one indisoluble and one yet in need of renewal.

A bit of a maverick on passage by passage basis. I question his frequent use of Greek tense in his argumentation.

Person-creature distinction was unfamiliar to me. Seems super useful, as evidenced by his explanation of what a covenant is/how they function

And when we say that human beings have been appointed by God to rule over and to care for the earth, we ascribe to man a relationship found in no other creatures, not even the angels. 3/3

When we say that human beings are capable of conscious fellowship with their fellowmen and that their lives are to be directed toward their neighbors, we ascribe to man a relationship found in no other creatures, probably not even the angels, who are not bound to each other in the same way that human beings are. 2/3

“When we say that human beings are responsible to God and that their lives must be consciously directed toward him, we ascribe to man a relationship to God found in no other creatures except the angels” (81) 1/3