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The Beloved Community: Corporate Imago Dei, Embodied Reconciliation, and Vocational Co-Laboring within the Promise-Plan of God

Marc Bates

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At a Glance

This essay examines the corporate, embodied, and vocational dimensions of the imago Dei through Carmen Joy Imes’s account of “the Beloved Community” in Being God’s Image 2023, ch. 9 , locating that account within Walter C. Kaiser Jr.’s promise-plan theology.

What This Study Explores

Promise-Plan Theology • Imago Dei • Christian Love

Scripture Connections

Romans 8; Genesis 3; Jeremiah 31; Ezekiel 36; Genesis 1; 1 Corinthians 12; Ephesians 4; Ephesians 2

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