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Inhabiting the Cruciform God: Kenosis, Justification, and Theosis in Paul’s Narrative Soteriology is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this groundbreaking study of Paul’s soteriology, Michael Gorman builds on his influential Cruciformity: Paul’s Narrative Spirituality of the Cross to argue that cruciformity is, at its heart, theoformity—what the Christian tradition has called theosis or participation in the life of God.

sometimes called it, deification, divinization, or theosis.4 It is conformity to Christ, or holiness, understood as participation in the very life of God—inhabiting the cruciform God. This conclusion is implicit in Cruciformity, but it is not fully developed there. This new book unpacks the claim that cruciformity is theoformity, or theosis. It unfolds in four closely connected chapters. Chapter one examines Phil 2:6–11, which may be called Paul’s master story, to show that Christ’s kenosis (self-emptying)
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