ABSTRACT
This volume illustrates the complexity and variety of early Christian thought on the subject of the image of God as a theological concept, and the difficulties that arise even in the interpretation of particular authors who gave a cardinal place to the image of God in their expositions of Christian doctrine. The first part illustrates both the presence and the absence of the image of God in the earliest Christian literature; the second examines various studies in deification, both implicit and explicit; the third explores the relation between iconography and the theological notion of the image
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I What is the Image of God?
part |2 pages
PART II Image and Eschatology: Deification
part |2 pages
PART III Image of God and Byzantine/ Meta- Byzantine Icon