Last Edit: January 29, 2018, 04:00 PM by Jon Stovell
Abstract:
Vineyard theology and practice are congenial to a modern thread of Pauline interpretation, most commonly identified with Albert Schweitzer (1931), which de-centralizes the motif of justification by faith in favor of a more pervasive Pauline motif involving eschatological, pneumatological, and “quasi- physical” union with Christ. In addition to Schweitzer, I will briefly engage the work of William Wrede (1907), E. P. Sanders (1977), Douglas A. Campbell (2009), N. T. Wright (2009), and others. I will argue that although justification by faith is important, it is best understood as the way by which believers enter into the more comprehensive reality of participation in Christ, which could be identified at a basic level with being “in Christ” in Pauline idiom, “eternal life” in Johannine idiom, and “the Kingdom of God” in the idiom of the Synoptic Gospels. The Vineyard movement’s congeniality to this thread of Pauline interpretation positions the Vineyard to provide a helpful corrective to the over-emphasis on justification apart from works in certain Protestant circles.
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This post has 1 attachment(s) that you cannot view or download. Please join SVS, and then try again.Bill Horst. Being-in-Christ - The Vineyard Movement, the Gospel of Paul, and the ‘Subsidiary Crater’ of Justification.pdf
