The Self-Donation of God: A Contemporary Lutheran Approach to Christ and His Benefits (Biblia.com)

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In The Self-Donation of God, Jack Kilcrease builds a systematic text on the premise that the speech-act of promise is always an act of self-donation. Anyone who unilaterally promises to another is bound to take a particular series of actions to fulfill that promise. Thus as creation is grounded in God’s promising speech, Kilcrease argues that the divine-human relationship is fundamentally one of...

[glory].”40 Daniel 2 and 7 also envision the restoration of Edenic harmony and the return from cosmic exile in the form of the destruction of the idolater’s demonic kingdoms, and their replacement by God’s own kingdom. Much like in Genesis 1, where the humans made in God’s image are given dominion on the earth, the Messiah is described in Daniel 7 as “one like a son of man” (v. 13) being given “dominion and glory and a kingdom” (v. 14). Moreover, as Beale has also noted concerning Daniel 2, the vision

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