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“In Christ” in Paul: Explorations in Paul's Theology of Union and Participation ,
Author(s) -
Dominiak Paul A.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
reviews in religion and theology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1467-9418
pISSN - 1350-7303
DOI - 10.1111/rirt.13767
Subject(s) - faith , dialog box , creatures , theology , citizen journalism , philosophy , sociology , law , history , political science , archaeology , world wide web , computer science , natural (archaeology)
Recent decades have seen a retrieval of the idea of participation in God as a central locus for the Christian faith across all of its ecclesial traditions. ‘Participation in God’ has two aspects and two registers. It describes the relationship between God and creation and also describes the salvific return of creatures to God as a kind of (re)union with the Creator. These two participatory aspects each have a scriptural register and a philosophical‐theological register. This review article examines what the key claims of participation in God are, why participation aroused suspicion and fell from view, how it has been retrieved in its scriptural and philosophical‐theological registers, and why three recent studies of the idea should be warmly welcomed but cautiously received.