Derrick Peterson: A Panic of Joy: Union With Christ as the Skopos of Trinitarian Discourse
March 19, 2014 http://growrag.wordpress.com/2014/03/19/guest-contribution-derrick-peterson-a-panic-of-joy-union-with-christ-as-the-skopos-of-trinitarian-discourse/ A Panic of Joy: Union With Christ as the Skopos of Trinitarian Discourse If the Trinity is the “Ground and Grammar” of Christian thought and life, then the only true point of departure for theorizing on that front is through our union with Christ Jesus in the power of the Spirit. It is here that the unity of Evangelical Calvinism’s first (Trinity as ground and grammar) and tenth theses (union with Christ as central) are shown in essence to be two sides of a single vision. My claim is that though I personally may not bean Evangelical Calvinist (though I am sympathetic enough to their claims that I would not begrudge being deputized) precisely to the extent that contemporary Trinitarian theology has forgotten these vital poin...