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Images of salvation in the New Testament / Brenda B. Colijn.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Academic, c2010.Description: 335 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780830838721 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0830838724
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 234 22
LOC classification:
  • BS2545.S25 C65 2010
Contents:
On method -- Inheritance in the new covenant -- Citizens of the kingdom, disciples of the king -- The life of the age to come: eternal life -- I am about to do a new thing: regeneration, new creation -- Deliverance belongs to the Lord: Sōtēria as rescue and healing -- My chains fell off, my heart was free: redemption, ransom, freedom, forgiveness -- No longer strangers: reconciliation, adoption, peace -- Justification by faith(fulness) -- Election in Christ for the sake of the world -- Transformation by participation: being in Christ, glorification, theosis -- A people holy to the lord: Sanctification, perfection -- Call to endurance: pilgrimage, contest, worship.
Summary: Colijn embraces a critical-realist methodology that incorporates New Testament theology, literary criticism and theological interpretation. She advocates listening to the individual authors of Scripture in their own social-cultural and historical settings, while looking for how the texts work both individually and collectively at a literary level. --from publisher description
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

On method -- Inheritance in the new covenant -- Citizens of the kingdom, disciples of the king -- The life of the age to come: eternal life -- I am about to do a new thing: regeneration, new creation -- Deliverance belongs to the Lord: Sōtēria as rescue and healing -- My chains fell off, my heart was free: redemption, ransom, freedom, forgiveness -- No longer strangers: reconciliation, adoption, peace -- Justification by faith(fulness) -- Election in Christ for the sake of the world -- Transformation by participation: being in Christ, glorification, theosis -- A people holy to the lord: Sanctification, perfection -- Call to endurance: pilgrimage, contest, worship.

Colijn embraces a critical-realist methodology that incorporates New Testament theology, literary criticism and theological interpretation. She advocates listening to the individual authors of Scripture in their own social-cultural and historical settings, while looking for how the texts work both individually and collectively at a literary level. --from publisher description

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