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In this innovative work in theological method and hermeneutics, Michael S. Horton uses the motif of the covenant as a way of binding together God’s “word” and God’s “act.” Seeking an integration of theological method with the content of Christian theology, Horton emphasizes God’s covenant as God’s way of working for redemption in the world. Horton maintains a substantial dialogue with important...

of human rebellion, injustice, and irresponsibility in opposition to “the age to come” in which God’s reign is uncontested, the cross is transformed fully and finally into glory, and faith and hope are exchanged for sight. Nowhere is this eschatological dualism more obviously opposed to any ontological version than in the discussion in Romans 8. In verses 1–25 alone, we find much of the list above (the dualisms of Pauline eschatology). “In Christ” there is “no condemnation,” since the era of the
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