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Introducing Major Theologians: From the Apostolic Fathers to the Twentieth Century is unavailable, but you can change that!

Is ‘newer’ really ‘better’? We often assume so, but if we do treat the past as inferior, we will ignore the legacy of history, and thus will find ourselves stranded on the tiny desert island of our own moment in time. In particular, this applies to Christian theology, which should be thought, and lived, corporately by the church down through the ages. The remedy to ‘chronological snobbery’ is,...

maturity for us.25 Adam was a ‘pattern of the one to come’ (Rom. 5:14); an image of the true Image of God, Jesus Christ; filled with breath as a type of the one filled with the Spirit. Humanity, from the moment of its creation, then, was destined for Spirit-filled maturity in Christ. Yet if Christ were to bring the humanity that was created to its goal, he could not ‘pass through Mary as water through a tube’, or take a body afresh from the earth as Adam had been; he needed an umbilical cord of continuity
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