Becoming Divine

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Withrow's fascinating look at Edwards's incarnationalism is must reading for Edwards scholars. By tying Edwards's Spirit-Christology to his doctrine of the Spirit's role in binding believers to Christ, helping them understand the Scriptures, and thereby helping them participate in the very life of God, he has developed a reading of Edwards that will generate fresh thinking about this quasi-mystical sage and his variations on such crucial theological themes for years to come.
DOUGLAS A. SWEENEY, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

In Becoming Divine, Brandon Withrow has provided a masterful explication of Edwards's understanding of the intricate relationship between what the Bible is and what conversion does, between 'Biblicism' and 'union with Christ.' Withrow places Edwards's work carefully and accurately within the broader historical/theological tradition of hermeneutics and spirituality and shows how Edwards's theology is 'a Protestant candidate for continuing interests in ecumenical dialogue between Western and Eastern Christians.' For all of these reasons, I enthusiastically recommend this book.
SAMUEL T. LOGAN Jr., The World Reformed Fellowship

Beneath these pages is a truckload of careful spadework which informs Withrow's thoughtful analysis of many of the literary influences on Jonathan Edwards's 'spiritual reading' of Scripture. One result is a better understanding of Edwards's view of the sublime doctrine historically termed 'deification' . . . Readers will find much in Withrow's knowledge of the life, times, and thought of Edwards to enlarge their own understanding of the same.
DON WHITNEY, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary