Living in Union with Christ: Paul's Gospel and Christian Moral Identity - Softcover

Macaskill, Grant

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1540967425 ISBN 13: 9781540967428

Verlag: Baker Academic, 2023

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A leading New Testament theologian introduces Paul's understanding of the Christian life, which is grounded in the Apostle's theology of union with Christ.

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Grant Macaskill (PhD, University of St. Andrews) is Kirby Laing Chair of New Testament Exegesis at the University of Aberdeen in Aberdeen, Scotland. He previously taught at the University of St. Andrews and is the author of several books, including Union with Christ in the New Testament, The New Testament and Intellectual Humility, and Autism and the Church.

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In this volume, leading New Testament theologian Grant Macaskill introduces Paul's understanding of the Christian life, which is grounded in the apostle's theology of union with Christ. If Christian identity and the theological concept of the person are defined on the basis of union with Christ, what does this mean for how we act and live in the economy of redemption? Macaskill explores key implications for the Christian life of the New Testament idea of participatory union: union with Christ and Christian identity, Eucharistic memory as participation in Christ, the Holy Spirit and the presence of Christ in the Christian life, and hope as a virtue of Christian moral action. Throughout, Macaskill shows how the exegetical foundations for a Christian moral theology emerge from the idea of union with Christ as it unfolds in Paul's Letters.

From the Preface
This book is an exercise in the practical theological interpretation of Paul's Epistles. It involves careful exegesis of a number of passages in critical dialogue with the work of other biblical scholars, but its purpose is not simply to gain a better understanding of Paul's thought in its historical context, which is how biblical scholars often conceive of their task. Rather, it is ultimately oriented toward asking a practical theological question: As Christians who are committed to seeing Scripture as normative for our thought and practice, how then must we think and act today?

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• Verlag: Baker Academic
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1540967425
• ISBN 13: 9781540967428
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
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