Reclaiming the Truth of the Image of God

Many were the areas in which the Reformers cleared away the stifling undergrowth of Romish, scholastic error and opened up and clarified the church's understanding of biblical truths. One of these vital areas was the truth of the image of God in man. What Berkof says in his Reformed Dogmatics is certainly true: "The doctrine of the image of God is of greatest importance in theology, for that image is the expression of that which is most distinctive in man and in his relation to God" (Vol. I,...