Paul and the Image of God

In Paul and the Image of God, Chris Kugler argues that Paul adapted Jewish wisdom and Middle Platonic intermediary traditions so as to present the preexistent Jesus as the cosmogonical image of God, according to which Adam himself was made and toward which the whole of humanity was destined.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Framing the Research

Chapter 2 A Century of Studying the Imago Dei

Chapter 3 Second-Temple Jewish Monotheism

Chapter 4 The Jewish Imago Dei Tradition

Chapter 5 The Imago Dei in the Greco-Roman World

Chapter 6 Paul and the Image of God

Chapter 7 2 Corinthians 2:17-4:6

Chapter 8 Romans 7-8

Chapter 9 Colossians 1:15-20; 3:10

Chapter 10 Paul and the Image of God: Conclusion

About the author

Chris Kugler is Assistant Professor of Theology at Houston Baptist University.

Product details

• Authors: Chris Kugler
• Assisted by: Wright N. T. (Foreword)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2022
• EAN: 9781978707405
• ISBN: 978-1-978707-40-5
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Practical theology; RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, Theology, Christian theology, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, New Testaments, Biblical Studies & Exegesis