Calvin's Christology / Stephen Edmondson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edmondson, Stephen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jesus Christ--Person and offices.

Jesus Christ.

Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.

Calvin, Jean.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 248 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Stephen Edmondson articulates a coherent Christology from Calvin's commentaries and his Institutes. He argues that, through the medium of Scripture's history, Calvin, the biblical humanist, renders a Christology that seeks to capture both the breadth of God's multifaceted grace enacted in history, and the hearts of God's people formed by history. What emerges is a picture of Christ as the Mediator of God's covenant through his threefold office of priest, king and prophet. With Christ's work as the pivot on which Calvin's Christology turns, Christ's person becomes the goal to which it drives: for Christ mediates our union with God only through union with himself. This is the first significant volume to explore Calvin's Christology in several decades. It clarifies an important but perplexing subject in Calvin studies through its focus on Christ's work in history and allows Calvin a voice in the current theological conversation about Christology.

Contents:

Christ as mediator. Stancaro and the traditional doctrine of the mediator

Calvin's response to Stancaro

Christ and the covenant history. The covenant history

Christ in history

The gospel history

Christ as priest. The sacerdotal office in the gospel commentaries

Christ's sacerdotal office in the Institutes

Christ as king. Christ's royal office in the gospel commentaries

Christ's royal office in the Institutes

The eternity of Christ's kingdom

Christology in the Institutes

Christ as prophet. Christ's prophetic office in the gospel commentaries

Christ's prophetic office in the Institutes

Christ as the object of faith

The person of the mediator. Calvin's use of persona

Testimony to Christ's persona in Calvin's commentaries

Hope that God might dwell with us.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-14928-2

1-280-54030-3

0-511-21481-2

0-511-21660-2

0-511-21123-6

0-511-20765-4

0-511-31538-4

0-511-48767-3

0-511-21300-X

OCLC:

613361211