
Participation and Covenant
Dick Moes(Author)
Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published on 13. March 2024
Book
Hardback
444 pages
979-8-3852-0459-5 (ISBN)
Description
In Participation and Covenant: Contours of a Theodramatic Theology, 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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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
792 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-3852-0459-5 (9798385204595)
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Dick Moes is pastor emeritus at Surrey Covenant Reformed Church, located in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, and affiliated with the United Reformed Churches in North America. He earned an MTh degree from the Theological University in Kampen, The Netherlands, in 1980. In 2007, he obtained a DMin from the Associated Canadian Theological Schools (ACTS) in Langley. He completed his PhD at the North-West University in Potchefstroom, South Africa, in 2022.