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Re-Imaging Election , written by Suzanne McDonald, Assistant Professor of Religion at Calvin College, is an insightful, important, and provocative work on the doctrine of election. Recent scholarship on election has suffered from disciplinary fragmentation. In biblical studies, various scholars have worked to reframe and restate this biblical theme. Historical theologians have sought to correct the caricature of election in seventeenth century Reformed theology. In Barth studies, recent works have given a careful reconstruction of Barth’s innovative doctrine of election—also correcting common caricatures of his position. But not until Re-Imaging Election do we have a constructive proposal which brings these discourses together in a critical and innovative way. McDonald begins her study with an insightful chapter on the trinitarian and pneumatological dimensions of John Owen’s doctrine of election. She points to Owen’s rich account of the Spirit as the trinitarian agent of election to show that “everything about our being found to be ‘in Christ’ presupposes and entails the work of the Spirit in us” (11). Moreover, this is woven tightly together with Owen’s theology of the imago dei , which is “the Godward orientation of the whole person,” and is restored “only through union with Christ by
Journal of Reformed Theology – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2012
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