Perichoretic Salvation

Author : James D. Gifford
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781610971140

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Perichoretic Salvation by James D. Gifford Pdf

For two thousand years, Christian theologians have struggled to explain the believer's union with Christ. What sort of union is it? How can it be fully described? This book is an attempt to join the conversation to explore exactly what it means to be in union with Christ. This book will argue that the believer's union with Christ can rightly be presented as a third type of perichoresis. Perichoresis is a word that describes the way the persons of the Trinity interrelate, without losing their essential oneness nor without being absorbed into each other. In short, the doctrine of perichoresis preserves the unity and diversity within the Godhead. It is also used to describe the hypostatic union of the divine and human in Christ. In Perichoretic Salvation, James Gifford argues that the union of the believer and Christ is a relationship of the same kind, though of a third type. Arguing from a perspective that is rooted biblically, historically, and theologically, the book will allow the union to be explained more fully than in the past while remaining within the bounds of what the church has taught over the centuries. It may prove to be a basis for understanding the work of Christ afresh for the twenty-first century.

Author : Robert A. Peterson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798385219544

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Salvation Applied by the Spirit by Robert A. Peterson Pdf

The doctrine of believers’ union with Christ has undergone a renaissance in recent years. Evangelicals are rightly fascinated by this previously neglected doctrine – a doctrine with wide-ranging implications for the whole of Christian theology and the Christian life. Drawing on his extensive teaching and research experience, theologian Robert Peterson has written one of the most comprehensive theological treatments of union with Christ to date, highlighting the Spirit’s crucial role in uniting God to his people.

Author : Myk Habets,Bobby Grow
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498209076

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Evangelical Calvinism by Myk Habets,Bobby Grow Pdf

Continuing the discussion initiated in volume one, volume two of Evangelical Calvinism further articulates the central motifs of this mood within Reformed theology by examining themes having to do with dogmatics and devotion. After further clarifying the methodological and dogmatic aspects common to an Evangelical Calvinism, the heart of the present volume is an explication of the vicarious ministry of Christ as it is worked out in its diverse theological dimensions. The volume offers constructive accounts of various aspects of liturgy, sacraments, and doxology, showing the vitality and lived spirituality of this Christian vision of faith and practice. Both advocates and critics of Evangelical Calvinism now have an extended and thorough body of work with which to interact. As with volume 1, this volume promises to set the agenda for contemporary and constructive Reformed studies in a way that provides an alternative to neo-Calvinism and Westminster Calvinism alike.

Author : Charles Twombly
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620321805

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Perichoresis and Personhood by Charles Twombly Pdf

Perichoresis (mutual indwelling) is a concept used extensively in the so-called Trinitarian revival; and yet no book-length study in English exists probing how the term actually developed in the "classical period" of Christian doctrine and how it was carefully deployed in relation to Christian dogma. Consequently, perichoresis is often used in imprecise and even careless ways. This path-breaking study aims at placing our understanding of the term on firmer footing, clarifying its actual usage in relation to doctrines of God, Christ, and salvation in the thought of John of Damascus, the eighth-century theologian, monk, and hymn writer who gave it its historically influential application. Since John summed up a whole theological tradition, this work provides not only an introduction to his theological vision but also to the key themes of Greek patristic thought generally and thereby lays an essential foundation for those who would dig deeper into the present-day usefulness of perichoresis.

Author : Gifford A. Grobien
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191091391

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Christian Character Formation by Gifford A. Grobien Pdf

Christian Character Formation investigates worship and formation in view of Christian anthropology, particularly union with Christ. Traditions which value justification by faith wrestle to some degree with how to describe and encourage ethical formation when salvation and righteousness are presented as gracious and complete. The dialectic of law and gospel has suggested to some that forgiveness and the advocacy of ethical norms contend with each other. By viewing justification and formation in light of Christ's righteousness which is both imputed and imparted, it is more readily seen that forgiveness and ethics complement each other. In justification, God converts a person, by which he grants new character. Traditional Lutheran anthropology says that this regeneration grants a new nature in mystical union with Jesus Christ. By exploring the Finnish Luther School led by Tuomo Mannermaa, Gifford A. Grobien explains how union with Christ imparts righteousness and the corresponding new character to the believer. Furthermore, as means of grace, the Word and sacraments are the means of establishing union with Christ and nurturing new character. Considering Oswald Bayer's "suffering" the word of Christ, Louis-Marie Chauvet's "symbolic order" and Bernd Wannenwetsch's understanding of worship as Christianity's unique "form of life," Grobien argues that worship practices are the foundational and determinative context in which grace is offered and in which the distinctively Christian ethos supports virtues consistent with Christian character. This understanding is also coordinated with Stanley Hauerwas's narrative ethics and Luther's teaching of virtue and good works in view of the Ten Commandments.

Author : Bryan Jeongguk Lee
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608999088

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Celebrating God's Cosmic Perichoresis by Bryan Jeongguk Lee Pdf

In the face of today's unprecedented ecological crisis, Christianity is often seen not only as sharing in the guilt of causing this crisis, but also as unwilling and incapable of providing any help in re-envisioning the required new way of life on earth. This view is justified when we consider how modern Christian theology has tended to denigrate the natural world and how the prevalent world-deserting Christian eschatology forms a spirituality that is fundamentally insensitive and indifferent to nature. In light of this, a meaningful Christian contribution to today's world of enormous ecological suffering must lie in envisioning a fundamentally new ecological vision of humanity's relationship to nature as well as providing an ethical energy to transform our current path of self-destruction. In this book, Bryan J. Lee finds, in Jÿrgen Moltmann's eschatological panentheism, a viable pathway toward a Christian ecological re-envisioning of the relationship between God and humanity and between humanity and nature. Furthermore, Lee demonstrates in a persuasive way how Christian worship can and should be the epicenter of ecological transformation of the society, emphatically interpreting Christian worship as an ecological-eschatological anticipation of God's cosmic perichoresis.

Author : Aquinas Chair in Theology and Philosophy Paul L Gavrilyuk,Ordinary Professor of Patristics and Ancient Languages Andrew Hofer O P,James N Jr and Mary D Perry Chair of Theology Matthew Levering
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-09-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198865179

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The Oxford Handbook of Deification by Aquinas Chair in Theology and Philosophy Paul L Gavrilyuk,Ordinary Professor of Patristics and Ancient Languages Andrew Hofer O P,James N Jr and Mary D Perry Chair of Theology Matthew Levering Pdf

This handbook offers a comprehensive and varied study of deification within Christian theology. Forty-six leading experts in the field examine points of convergence and difference on the constitutive elements of deification across different writers, thinkers, and traditions.

Author : Dennis Ngien
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532643347

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The Interface of Science, Theology, and Religion by Dennis Ngien Pdf

In celebration of Alister E. McGrath’s sixty-fifth birthday in 2018, this Festschrift aims to highlight him as a lauded scholar, who exemplifies an interface of science, theology, and religion. It comprises works by McGrath’s theological allies and colleagues from diverse ecclesial homes including Graham Ward, Oliver Crisp, Tony Lane, Sung Wook Chung, Randall Zachman, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Jonathan Wilson, Jeffrey P. Greenman, Robert Kolb, Sister Benedicta Ward, Michael Lloyd, Bethany Sollereder, and Patrick Franklin. Critical but appreciative is the posture with which these contributors engage the wide range of McGrath's own scholarly pursuits and publications. This volume, edited by Dennis Ngien, covers these themes that are central to the life and witness of the church: atonement, Christology, Trinity, eschatology, mission, Reformation, science, nature, culture, evangelism, and theodicy—there is much to ponder and reap here. Readers will join with the contributors and pay tribute to McGrath who has risen to a life of significance as a scientist turned theologian, professor, author, Christian apologist, and churchman.

Author : David C. Scott
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532632402

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Re-Envisioning Transformation by David C. Scott Pdf

In today’s church, use of the term transformation has become commonplace. Various perspectives are offered on what a Christian view of transformation is—and on how it may be achieved. These often-conflicting views suggest an ecclesial landscape characterized by pluralism, division, fragmentation, confusion, relativism, individualism, pragmatism, and subjectivism. Despite the current interest in transformational theology, the absence of a common, coherent, and integrated vision (and the lack of transformation) is often accepted and affirmed. Re-Envisioning Transformation looks at the possibility of moving toward a vision of transformational theology that is cohesive, unified, broad, effectual, and distinctly Christian. In this book, the contributions of two radically different“theologians of the Christian life” are examined. This provides the basis from which to develop a comprehensive and integrated framework of transformational theology—pointing God’s people toward the need to express and live out a distinctly Christian vision.

Author : Kevin Michalek
Publisher : TEACH Services, Inc.
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781479607396

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Kingdom Transformation by Kevin Michalek Pdf

You are holding a valuable and worthwhile expository tool that unfolds a fundamental theme – the Kingdom of God. The author labors with vigor to show that we have perhaps failed to examine the various aspects of the Kingdom of God. God wants you to incorporate the Life of Christ in order for you to discover a new, deeper experience of His incredible self-sacrificial life, unfolding in your journey with Him.

Author : Trevor Hart,Dan Thimell
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781556350092

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Christ in our Place: The Humanity of God in Christ for the Reconciliation of the World by Trevor Hart,Dan Thimell Pdf

Author : Michael J. Thate,Kevin J. Vanhoozer,Constantine R. Campbell
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 823 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467466974

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"In Christ" in Paul by Michael J. Thate,Kevin J. Vanhoozer,Constantine R. Campbell Pdf

Nineteen biblical scholars and theologians in this volume explore the notions of union and participation within Pauline theology, teasing out the complex web of meaning conveyed through Paul's theological vision of being "in Christ." With essays that investigate Pauline theology and exegesis, ex-amine highlights from reception history, and offer deep theological reflection, this exemplary multidisciplinary collection charts new ground in the scholarly understanding of Paul's thought and its theological implications.

Author : James D. Gifford
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666754308

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The Hexagon of Heresy by James D. Gifford Pdf

Have you ever wondered how we got here? Have you ever wondered how Western civilization arrived at the brink of suicide? How did a thoroughly Christian culture give rise to the very ideas that seek to kill it? Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Turks. Western civilization has never been conquered from without; it is being conquered from within. How do philosophies like deism, fatalism, Marxism, atheism, and secular humanism arise from within the confines of the Christian theological culture that is Western civilization? Also, why are there always exactly two sides to every fundamental disagreement? Why is it either liberal or conservative, sovereignty or freedom, rational or volitional, meticulous order or complete chaos, Catholic or Protestant, Lutheran or Reformed, God or humanity, the one or the many? Why is there never a third option, or even an option that can bypass the dichotomy? This book attempts to provide a framework that seeks to begin answering some of those questions. The answer may be something very ancient and almost forgotten in today’s world. Theological decisions were made long ago that planted the seeds for the destruction of both church and civilization. What are they? Read and find out.

Author : D. Glenn Butner Jr.
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532641725

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The Son Who Learned Obedience by D. Glenn Butner Jr. Pdf

This book offers a fresh perspective on the ongoing evangelical debate concerning whether the Son eternally submits to the Father. Beginning with the pro-Nicene account of will being a property of the single divine nature, Glenn Butner explores how language of eternal submission requires a modification of the classical theology of the divine will. This modification has problematic consequences for Christology, various atonement theories, and the doctrine of God, because as historically developed these doctrines shared the pro-Nicene assumption of a single divine will. This new angle on an old debate challenges the reader to move beyond the inaccurate characterization of views on eternal submission as "Arian" or "feminist" toward a more accurate understanding of the real theological issues at stake.

Author : Sung Rual Choi
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666781878

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Union with Christ by Sung Rual Choi Pdf

Understanding union with Christ as a frame of thought (as a motif or theme) is important for accessing Calvin's theology. While the union-with-Christ doctrine arises when Calvin explains the doctrine itself directly (especially in light of soteriology), the strong presence of this motif--union with Christ (union with the Triune God)--indicates its pervasiveness when other doctrines or theological themes are explained as well. This book suggests that we approach the notion of union of Christ as a theological frame of thought that touches on most of the doctrines and theological themes of Calvin's theology. This book deals with union with Christ as a motif or theme rather than as a doctrine.