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Images of the Spirit

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If you made it through seminary without reading this book, then you have been cheated. This books should be standard reading for all ministers and serious bible students. If you deal with the text of scripture, you will want to deal with Kline. This book is short and packed. It is simultaneously brilliant and small. Kline is an expert in the ancient Near East, and this allows him to untangle heavenly imagery. This book does not disappoint Do not read it if you are not ready to be floored...

Brillant exegesis of biblical material. Has brought fresh insight into ancient texts. Fine example of creative, biblical study of doctrinal matter. I have referred to it again and again in the course of my study. Wish he had more published materials available to the general public.

This small but tight example of solid biblical exegesis demonstrates that the *imago Dei* does NOT consist in having a soul according to a rational-substance conception.
It also demonstrates that the imago Dei is a broader concept that "humanity."
It further exemplifies a hermeneutic capable of doing justice to the full scope of biblical revelation.

This is the toughest theological treatise I have ever read and it's a very short book. If you have any interest in the doctrine of Imago Dei, you need to begin somewhere near this masterpiece.

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Kline discusses the concept of the image of God as it relates to Old Testament prophets and priests. He makes some fascinating points, but the book is not for the faint-hearted: "In the prophetic model, that eschatological destiny of redeemed mankind was proleptically anticipated in pneumatic reality"...

This was an interesting book. Kline does a superior job in his description of the Biblical imagery of the Glory Cloud. I think his portrayal of God coming to confront Adam and Eve as the "Day Spirit" better than the "cool of the day" translations. But, he lets his imagination get away from him when he reinterprets "us" in Gen. 1:26.