Moltmann on The Messianic Calling of Human Beings: Imago Christi

"The true likeness to God is to be found, not at the beginning of God's history with mankind, but at its end; and as goal it is present in that beginning and during every moment of that history. In the New Testament it is Paul, more than anyone else, who uses the concept of likeness to God; and he applies it in order to present Jesus, the raised and transfigured Messiah, as God's true image. Christ is the image and glory of the invisible God on earth. In his fellowship, people become what they are intended to be. Their glorification is promised them with their justification and in the process of their sanctification."

- Jürgen Moltmann, Gott in der Schöpfung: Ökologische Schöpfungslehre [God in Creation (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1993); 225]