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Jonathan Edwards and the Life of God retrieves Edwards’ theology of participation, elucidating the concept of theosis in his Trinitarian theology. This volume brings Edwards’ rich theological work into conversation with the patristic and Reformed traditions (Calvin and especially, Barth), in order to form a more hopeful, liberating, and human version of Christian life. Author Ross Hastings...

uncovers the teleological consummation of creation as doxological participation in and unity with the Trinity.”2 This attempt remains among the most credible. Within the context of the ongoing renaissance of Edwardsian scholarship, I wish to make the modest proposal that union is a significant driving force in Edwards’s Trinitarian theology,3 if not its overarching trope, and that his theology essentially tells a “from eternity, to eternity” story of three unions in the Spirit: the eternal union
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