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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...

event as the pinnacle and major part of Christ’s atonement, the “brightest effulgence” of Christ’s “beauty and amiable excellency.”4 Much more than an abstract forensic negotiation with God, or even an act of obedience by which he fulfilled “Adam’s part all over again,”5 it is an act of romantic love couched within the metaphor of Edwards’s Bride-bridegroom theosis.6 The filial nature of the atonement is further evidenced in that the goal of the atonement is the infusion of the Gift of the Spirit,
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