Union with Christ in the New Testament

Union with Christ in the New Testament
ISBN-10
0199684294
ISBN-13
9780199684298
Category
Religion
Pages
353
Language
English
Published
2013-11
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Grant Macaskill

Description

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, it is argued that this union is consistently represented by the New Testament authors as centring on the idea of a covenant, with believers' experience of God specifically mediated by Jesus, the covenant Messiah. His mediation of divine presence is grounded in his own being, in the realdivinity and real humanity that theological traditions have affirmed, and is realised by the Holy Spirit, who unites believers to him in faith. His personal narrative of death and resurrection is understoodin relation to the covenant by which God's dealings with humanity are ordered. When united to him, believers are transformed, not just morally or socially, but also in the life of their minds.

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