The Self-Donation of God : A Contemporary Lutheran approach to Christ and His Benefits / Jack D. Kilcrease.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kilcrease, Jack D., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jesus Christ--Person and offices.

Jesus Christ.

Lutheran Church--Doctrines.

Lutheran Church.

Religion--Christian Theology--Christology.

Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 310 pages)

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Oregon : Wipf and Stock, 2013.

Summary:

In The Self-Donation of God, Jack Kilcrease argues that the speech-act of promise is always an act of self-donation. A person who unilaterally promises to another is bound to take a particular series of actions to fulfill that promise. Being that creation is grounded in God's promising speech, the divine-human relationship is fundamentally one of divine self-donation and human receptivity. Sin disrupts this relationship and therefore redemption is constituted by a reassertion of divine promise of salvation in the face of the condemnation of the law (Gen 3:15). As a new and effective word of grace, the promise of a savior begins the process of redemption within which God speaks forth a new narrative of creation. In this new narrative, God gives himself in an even deeper manner to humanity. By donating himself through a promise, first to the protological humanity and then to Israel, he binds himself to them. At the end of this history of self-binding, God in Christ enters into the condemnation of the law, neutralizes it in the cross, and brings about a new creation through his omnipotent word of promise actualized in the resurrection.

Contents:

Meditation in the Old Testament, Part1

Meditation in the Old Testament, Part 2

Christology and atonement in the New Testament, Part 1 : the Christology of the Gospels

Christology and atonement in the New Testament, Part 2, the Christology of the Epistles and Revelation

The mystery of the Person of Christ, Part 1 : creation and the Fall

The mystery of the Person of Christ, Part 2 : the new narrative of creation

The mystery of the person of Christ, Part 3 : the name of Jesus, the virgin birth, the gender of Christ

The mystery of the person of Christ, Part 4 : the genus Idiomaticum and the genus Apotelesmaticum

The mystery of the person of Christ, Part 5 : the communication of attributes : the genus Majestaticum and its defense

The mystery of the work of Christ, Part 1 : doctrines of atonement, Gnosticism, and the offices of Christ

The mystery of the work of Christ, Part 2, Christ's office as king and the nature of kenosis

The mystery of the work of Christ, Part 3 : Christ's office as High Priest

The mystery of the work of Christ, part 4 : the Descensus ad Inferos and Christ's prophetic office.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781621896081

1621896080