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Justified in the Spirit: Creation, Redemption, and the Triune God is unavailable, but you can change that!

Historically, the premise of justification by grace through faith has been debated according to Protestant and Catholic understandings. It has, therefore, been limited to the question of whether justification is the reception of forgiveness by faith along or the personal transformation that occurs as we cooperate with grace. Though some recent ecumenical discussions have sought to link to the...

advocate of creation present within the experience of abandonment and death suffered by the Son in his self-giving for creation. This is the Spirit that empowered Christ’s self-sacrifice on the cross (Heb. 9:14), raised Jesus from the dead (Rom. 1:4), and was poured by Christ onto creation to impart God’s favor and to continue to advocate for—and witness to—divine justice in the world. One cannot, therefore, separate the cross from the resurrection and Pentecost along the lines of justification and
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