Notes for Gen 1:26

1. Nathan MacDonald, "The Imago Dei and Election: Reading Genesis 1:26-28 and Old Testament Scholarship with Karl Barth," International Journal of Systmatic Theology 10/3 (2008): 304.

2. K. Barth, Church Dogmatics, III/I (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1958) 192ff.

3. K. Barth, Church Dogmatics, III/I (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1958) 195. Unfortunately, Barth did not heed his own counsel and went on to insist that the image of God in humans can only be realized in community; the individual, by virtue of his solitude, is an incomplete image and, therefore, an incomplete person. Imago Dei, you would probably have guessed, is Latin for "image of God."

4. B. K. Waltke, with C. J. Fredricks, Genesis A Commentary (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2001) 65.