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In this volume theologian Douglas Harink looks at 1 & 2 Peter through the theological lens of Christians living in empire. In 1 Peter, he believes there is a rich theology waiting to be taken from the world of Peter’s readers and brought thoughtfully in our own. In 2 Peter Harink traces a radically different trajectory as he examines the theological emphases found in the second book that to most...

way the result of our coming to the living stone is that our lives and the life of the church find in him their living origin, power, and end. Our coming to him, however, is not a self-generated movement, a journey as it were to a monolith that immovably awaits our approach and ascent. In the very next phrase, “rejected by men” (hypo anthrōpōn men apodedokimasmenon; 1 Pet. 2:4 NIV), Peter makes it clear that this living stone has already come to us and has, in his earthly historical coming and actuality,
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