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New Creation (καινὴ κτίσις, kainē ktisis). A Pauline expression in 2 Cor 5:17 and Gal 6:15, which refers to (1) a believer’s ontological transformation in Christ, (2) the community of Christian believers, and (3) the end-time cosmological renewal and restoration.

Among the biblical writers, only Paul uses the exact phrase “new creation” (καινὴ κτίσις, kainē ktisis) (2 Cor 5:17; Gal 6:15). A related expression, “new human/humanity” or “new man/self” (καινὸς ἄνθρωπον, kainos anthrōpon), appears in Eph 2:15; 4:23–24; Col 3:9–10. As Levison notes, however, “This expression is not unique to Paul. It, and ideas associated with it, occur in several literary texts and traditions of Second Temple Judaism” (Levison, “Creation and New Creation,” 189).

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