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Union with Christ in the New Testament (Hardcover)
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Union with Christ in the New Testament (Hardcover)
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This book is a study of the union between God and those he has
redeemed, as it is represented in the New Testament. In
conversation with historical and systematic theology, Grant
Macaskill argues that the union between God and his people is
consistently represented by the New Testament authors as
covenantal, with the participation of believers in the life of God
specifically mediated by Jesus, the covenant Messiah: hence, it
involves union with Christ. Christ's mediation of divine presence
is grounded in the ontology of the Incarnation, the real divinity
and real humanity of his person, and by the full divine personhood
of the Holy Spirit, who unites believers to him in faith. His
personal narrative of death and resurrection is understood in
relation to the covenant by which God's dealings with humanity are
ordered. In their union with him, believers are transformed both
morally and noetically, so that the union has an epistemic
dimension, strongly affirmed by the theological tradition but
sometimes confused by scholars with Platonism. This account is
developed in close engagement with the New Testament texts, read
against Jewish backgrounds, and allowed to inform one another as
context. As a 'participatory' understanding of New Testament
soteriology, it is advanced in distinction to other participatory
approaches that are here considered to be deficient, particularly
the so-called 'apocalyptic' approach that is popular in Pauline
scholarship, and those attempts to read New Testament soteriology
in terms of theosis, elements of which are nevertheless affirmed.
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