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Re-Imaging Election
Divine Election as Representing God to Others and Others to God
Suzanne McDonald
In Re-Imaging Election Suzanne McDonald offers a fresh approach to the doctrine
of election from a Reformed perspective, first by seeking greater acknowledgment
that election is not only “in Christ” but also “by the Spirit,” and second
by building on the scriptural and theological links between the doctrines of
election and the image of God.
McDonald combines those links through an analysis of John Owen and Karl
Barth to develop a constructive proposal that posits representation (representing
God to others and others to God) as a fruitful category for understanding the
nature and purpose of election. In doing so, she seeks to restore the robust
pneumatology characteristic of the earlier Reformed tradition without losing
some of the central insights from Barth’s christological reorientation of the
doctrine.
Suzanne McDonald is assistant professor of systematic and historical
theology at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan. This is her first book.
Theology
August / 978-0-8028-6408-6
6″ × 9″ paperback
240 pages / $26.00 [£17.99]
Divine Transcendence and the Culture of Change
David H. Hopper
In this book David H. Hopper explores why the doctrine of the transcendence
of God has been lost to contemporary theology, in conversation with H. Richard
Niebuhr, Martin Luther, Martin Bucer, John Calvin, and Francis Bacon.
Hopper argues that the problem is, in a word, tolerance. He acknowledges the
pragmatic worth of tolerance for getting on with necessary tasks, but expresses
reservations about the sufficient, sustaining nature of tolerance for the faith
community in an altered, global world. Divine Transcendence and the Culture of
Change seeks to reclaim necessary dimensions of faith that have collapsed into
the cultural vacuum created by thoughtless tolerance, and to restore God’s
transcendence to the center of all biblical religion.
David H. Hopper is the James Wallace Professor of Religion Emeritus at
Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota. His other books include A Dissent on
Bonhoeffer and Technology, Theology, and the Idea of Progress.
Historical Theology
November / 978-0-8028-6505-2
6″ × 9″ paperback
272 pages / $35.00 [£23.99]
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