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Books on the Christian life abound. Some focus on spirituality, others on practices, and others still on doctrines such as justification or forgiveness. Few offer an account of the Christian life that portrays redeemed Christian existence within the multifaceted and beautiful whole of the Christian confession. This book attempts to fill that gap. It provides a constructive, specifically...

the Holy Spirit’ (Tit. 2:5), and bestows new powers of life and activity: ‘the grace of the Holy Spirit and abundance of virtues are given in baptism’.8 Regeneration establishes (though it does not complete) a new order of being from which there comes a new course of life. The sequence is irreversible, regenerate nature preceding regenerate conduct. Regeneration is principally a ‘physical’ work—the establishment of the new nature or physis,9 and only by consequence a moral summons. The Spirit does
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