TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moes,Dick
TI  - Participation and covenant : contours of a theodramatic theology 
SN  - 9798385204588
AV  - BT155 .M63 2024
U1  - 231.76 23/eng/20240624
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Eugene, Oregon
PB  - Wipf & Stock
KW  - Horton, Michael Scott.
KW  - Covenant theology
KW  - Alliance (Th©Øeologie
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-384) and indexes; Chapter 1: Design Features of a Theodramatic Framework -- Chapter 2: Michael Horton's Covenantal Framework -- Chapter 3: An Evaluation of Horton's Covenant Theology -- Chapter 4: Participation in the Life of God and Divine-human Covenants: The Drama of God's Mission for His Glory -- Chapter 5: Outlining a Theodramatic Framework -- Chapter 6: Communicating the Gospel and Shaping our Christian Identity and Practice
N2  - "Moes develops a theological framework that has participation in the life of God in Christ through the Spirit as its integrative center. In doing so, he enters into conversation with covenant or federal theology, particularly as it has been presented by Michael Horton, in which the integrative center is the concept of the covenant. He argues that God's fundamental relationship with humanity does not entail a covenant ontology--a fundamentally legal and ethical relationship to God, as we find in Horton's presentation--but rather an ontology of participating in God's loving presence in Christ through the Holy Spirit. For this relationship we were created, and this participation is therefore natural to us. Accordingly, a theodramatic framework that incorporates a reframed understanding of divine-human covenants and that has participation in the life of God in Christ by the Spirit as its integrative center is better able to give direction for clearly communicating the gospel in our secular culture and for properly shaping our Christian identity and practice--in the face of the secularism that affects the church, too--than Horton's framework of covenant theology." --
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