Download or read book Christification written by Jordan Cooper and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-07-18 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The doctrine of theosis has enjoyed a recent resurgence among varied theological traditions across the realms of historical, dogmatic, and exegetical theology. In Christification: A Lutheran Approach to Theosis, Jordan Cooper evaluates this teaching from a Lutheran perspective. He examines the teachings of the church fathers, the New Testament, and the Lutheran Confessional tradition in conversation with recent scholarship on theosis. Cooper proposes that the participationist soteriology of the early fathers expressed in terms of theosis is compatible with Luther's doctrine of forensic justification. The historic Lutheran tradition, Scripture, and the patristic sources do not limit soteriological discussions to legal terminology, but instead offer a multifaceted doctrine of salvation that encapsulates both participatory and forensic motifs. This is compared and contrasted with the development of the doctrine of deification in the Eastern tradition arising from the thought of Pseudo-Dionysius. Cooper argues that the doctrine of the earliest fathers--such as Irenaeus, Athanasius, and Justin--is primarily a Christological and economic reality defined as "Christification." This model of theosis is placed in contradistinction to later Neoplatonic forms of deification.

Download or read book Union with Christ written by Jordan Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2021-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christian's participatory union with Christ is a central element of salvation, both in Scripture and in the historic Christian tradition. In the early twentieth-century, however, this theme gradually began to diminish in its prominence within Lutheran theological writing. Due to a variety of philosophical and theological shifts, many Lutherans began to emphasize forensic justification to the exclusion of participationist motifs. That forensic exclusivism is challenged in this work. In this book, Jordan Cooper articulates an approach to union with Christ that is drawn from both Patristic theology, and the classical Lutheran tradition. Throughout this study, Cooper exposits union with Christ under three distinctive categories: the objective union of God and man through the Incarnation, the formal union of faith in which the believer is united to Christ's person and work, and the mystical union through which the Triune God dwells in the hearts of Christians. This book is the sixth volume in a series titled A Contemporary Protestant Scholastic Theology.

Download or read book Efforts Toward Lutheran Union in the United States to 1860 written by Maude Lucille Lindquist and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book American Lutheranism written by F. Bente and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: American Lutheranism by F. Bente

Download or read book A Letter of the Committee on Lutheran Union Addressed to the Clery of the Missouri Synod written by Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod. Committee on Lutheran Union and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Union with Christ written by Carl E. Braaten and published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the English-speaking world to the new Finnish interpretation of the theology of Martin Luther, initiated by the writings of Tuomo Mannermaa of Helsinki University. At the heart of the Finnish breakthrough in Luther research lies the theme of salvation. Luther found his answer to the mystery of salvation in the justifying work of Christ received through faith alone. But Protestant theology has never enjoyed a consensus on how to interpret the Reformation doctrine of justification by faith. In opposition to the traditional forensic understanding of justification, Mannermaa argues that for Luther "Christ is really present in faith itself." Mannermaa's interpretation of Luther's view of justification is thus more ontological and mystical than ethical and juridical. As such, his work challenges a century of scholarly opinion concerning a foundational doctrine of Protestant theology.

Download or read book Toward Lutheran Union written by Theodore Graebner and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of the Committee on Lutheran Union Addressed to the Clery of the Missouri Synod written by Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod. Committee on Lutheran Union and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Lutherans in the Movements for Church Union written by Juergen Ludwig Neve and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Fellowship Dispute in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod written by Thomas Arnold Kuster and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Another Letter No 3 of the Committee on Lutheran Union Addressed to the Clery of the Missouri Synod written by Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod. Committee on Lutheran Union and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Declaration on the Way written by ELCA and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The document ... is a declaration of the consensus achieved by Lutherans and Catholics on the topics of church, ministry, and eucharist as the result of ecumenical dialogue between the two communions since 1965. It is a consensus 'on the way, ' because dialogue has not yet resolved all the church-dividing differences on these topics."--Preface.