
Re-Imaging Election
Divine Election as Representing God to Others and Others to God
Suzanne McDonald(Author)
William B Eerdmans Publishing Co
Published on 7. September 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
213 pages
978-0-8028-6408-6 (ISBN)
Description
In Re-Imaging Election Suzanne McDonald offers a fresh approach to the doctrine of election from a Reformed perspective, first by seeking greater acknowledgment that election is not only "in Christ" but also "by the Spirit," and second by building on the scriptural and theological links between the doctrines of election and the image of God. McDonald here combines an analysis of John Owen and Karl Barth with those links to develop a constructive proposal that posits representation (representing God to others and others to God) as a fruitful category for understanding the nature and purpose of election. In doing so, she seeks to restore the robust pneumatology characteristic of the earlier Reformed tradition without losing some of the central insights from Barth's christological re-orientation of the doctrine.
While Re-Imaging Election is firmly rooted in the Reformed tradition, the re-expression of the doctrine presented here opens up new possibilities for dialogue across the theological spectrum and offers suggestive directions for reclaiming an often-divisive doctrine in the life of the church.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Grand Rapids
United States
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
387 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8028-6408-6 (9780802864086)
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Person
Suzanne McDonald is associate professor of systematic andhistorical theology at Western Theological Seminary, Holland, Michigan. She is also the author of John Knoxfor Armchair Theologians.