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Re-Imaging Election: Divine Election as Representing God to Others and Others to God
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
- Publish Date: Sep 7th, 2010
- Pages: 233
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.90in - 6.00in - 0.60in - 0.70lb
- EAN: 9780802864086
- Categories: • Christian Theology - Soteriology
About the Author
McDonald, Suzanne: - 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.
Praise for this book
"Any attempt to revise the doctrine of election today has to go through Karl Barth. Suzanne McDonald builds upon his legacy even as she seeks to introduce critical modifications. For her, election has to do with the priestly work of a community empowered by the Holy Spirit to represent God to others and others before God. The last-named form of representation is of special interest to her. The Christian community represents others before God in that it holds the personhood of the apparently rejected within the sphere of God's promised blessing and, thereby, bears their rejection in itself. That such a thesis would provoke questions about the relation of Christ's work to the work of the church is, of course, inevitable. McDonald's book will further conversation not only about the doctrine of election but also about the state of Reformed theology today."
-- Bruce McCormack
Princeton Theological Seminary
-- Bruce McCormack
Princeton Theological Seminary