The Image of God

It completely slipped my mind even to look at the 53rd Christian Carnival when it came out (actually, I think I did look, and looked at one or two posts, but didn't get any farther). It's a huge one. A particularly important post is Rebecca's For in God's Image, which makes some good points. She is right that we often don't adequately distinguish 'mark of our being made in God's image', i.e., a sign of it (usually an effect of it under normal circumstances), with 'element of our being made in God's image', i.e., something essential to it. Parableman highlights a few other interesting posts in the Carnival. The newest Christian Carnival will be up later tonight at Digitus, Finger & Co.