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Often treated like the younger sibling in theology, the doctrine of sanctification has spent the last few decades waiting not-so-patiently behind those doctrines viewed as more senior. With so much recent interest in ideas like election and justification, the question of holiness can often seem to be of secondary importance, and widespread misunderstanding of sanctification as moralism or undue...

pattern of Christ, who is God’s Likeness absolutely.”7 This is none other than the ancient call to “be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy” (Lev 19:2), updated by the new covenant, which gives us the advantage of seeing what it means to be perfectly holy, what the unblemished image of God looks like in a human being, and so what it means to be truly human, modeled by the person of Christ. To be holy is to have the image of God, given to us at creation, restored in us. It is, therefore, to
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