We’re closing in on the end of this series of lectures from the Systematic Theology I course that I taught in S. Asia. It would have been most natural for my portion of the ST sequence to come to an end with the doctrine of God (or Theology Proper, as it’s called), but because of the amount of material that needed to be covered in the 2nd and 3rd parts of the sequence, I agreed to handle part of the doctrine of man (aka, theological anthropology) as well.
This means that we handled the image of God and the covenant with Adam at the end of this course. Both of these topics connect well with what comes before, so I was happy to include them.
Video 13 addresses the former topic, the divine image. It’s a rather more complicated and, in some regards, controversial topic than I had anticipated when I began thinking about how to teach it. Although I do point out some obvious dead ends, by and large, the video presents the various options without coming down too hard on a specific conclusion about what precisely the image of God in mankind is. At least as I’m thinking about this topic at present, there’s sufficient room within the scope of this doctrine to allow for various ways of describing how the image is constituted.
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