Marginal Christianity

http://growrag.wordpress.com/2014/09/29/unions-with-christ-according-to-evangelical-calvinism/ Myk Habets Without exploring the entire history of Scottish theology as read through the eyes of Torrance, we may note a few key influences on his thinking about union with Christ from this context. Torrance believes that ‘Union with Christ probably had a more important place in [Robert] Leighton’s theology than that given to it in the thought of any other Scottish theologian.’ Torrance gives Leighton (1611-1684) praise for not considering union with Christ simply as a ‘judicial union’ but as a ‘real union’ which occupies the centre of the whole redemptive activity mediated through Christ as saving grace. Utilised in this way union with Christ is fundamentally related to both election in Christ and the concept of saving exchange whereby Christ gives to humanity what is his – his righteousness and filial status - and takes to himself what is not his own – our sin and alienation. In James ...

“Thus it is through the weakness of the Man on the Cross and on the ground of reconciliation wrought out there that God meets, suffers, and triumphs over the enmity entrenched in human existence and history and over its distortion of the socio-political patterns of human life.” ( The Mediation of Christ , 41)

About Tagged: Thomas F. Torrance January 18, 2012 Torrance: Trinity, Love, and Communion “Is God ultimately a prisoner in his own lonely monotony? Or do we have, in God’s self-revelation, an overflow of his inner divine communion of love? The love of the Father to the Son, and the Son to the Father, involving the reciprocal knowledge of the Father and the Son, Son to the Father and over to us. Now, the whole Christian message is, the staggering Gospel, that in and through Christ and in his Spirit, we are given freely to share in the overflow of the inner communion of love in the being of God, and to partake of the inner reciprocal relations of knowing in God himself. And, in some sense…what it means to partake in the reciprocal relations in the divine being”