 | G. C. Berkouwer - 1976 - 444 σελίδες
...made: "the mystical body of Christ, which is the Church."20 The 22. Calvin, hnl.. 1ll, 11, 10: "that joining together of Head and members, that indwelling of Christ in our hearts." Cf. "because we put on Christ and are engrafted into his body." 23. Cf. my The Sacraments. 1969, p.... | |
 | Lewis B. Smedes - 1983 - 212 σελίδες
...grace, more than the mixture of divinity and humanity. 18Our future is dim and our prospects nil unless Christ "having been made ours, makes us sharers with him in the gifts with which he has been endowed" (Institutes III.xi.10). See RS Wallace, Calvin's Doctrine of the Christian Life (Grand Rapids, 1959),... | |
 | Dennis E. Tamburello - 1994 - 188 σελίδες
...places in the Institutes. The most important of these is found in Institutes 3.11.10: Therefore, that joining together of Head and members, that indwelling...Christ in our hearts — in short, that mystical union [mystica . . . unio] — are accorded by us the highest degree of importance, so that Christ, having... | |
 | I. John Hesselink - 1997 - 260 σελίδες
...utterly incomparable good [Christ and his righteousness] until Christ is made ours. Therefore, that joining together of Head and members, that indwelling...Christ in our hearts — in short, that mystical union \m\fstica unio] — are accorded by us the highest degree of importance, so that Christ, having been... | |
 | Donald K. McKim - 2003 - 148 σελίδες
...1.10). This is sometimes called a "mystical union." We experience Christ's presence and his benefits so that "Christ, having been made ours, makes us sharers...the gifts with which he has been endowed. . . . We put on Christ and are engrafted into his body. ... He deigns to make us one with him" (Institutes 3.11.10).... | |
 | Wallace M. Alston, Michael Welker - 2003 - 470 σελίδες
...believers are to have a share in the benefns of Christ: That joining together of Head and memhers, that indwelling of Christ in our hearts — in short, that mystical union — are accorded by us the high1. See Ronald S. Wallace, Calvins Doctrine of the Word and Sacrament (Tyler, Tex.: Geneva Divinity... | |
 | Donald K. McKim - 2004 - 376 σελίδες
...it becomes the focus for Christian faith and practice.23 Calvin says as much when he writes, "That joining together of Head and members, that indwelling...sharers with him in the gifts with which he has been endowed."24 For Calvin, piety is rooted in the believer's mystical union (unio mystica) with Christ;... | |
 | Victor A. Shepherd - 2004 - 264 σελίδες
...Christ were who he is apart from his people — but see him in his reality as including his people: "Christ, having been made ours, makes us sharers with...not, therefore, contemplate him outside ourselves ( Beveridge: 'without us') from afar in order that his righteousness may be imputed to us but because... | |
 | Karl Barth - 2005 - 360 σελίδες
...denique urtio a nobis in summo gradu statuitur . . . ," ET: Inst. IE,xi,10,l:737: "Therefore, that joining together of Head and members, that indwelling...accorded by us the highest degree of importance." See CR 74 (=CO 46), 953, ET: John Calvin, The Deity of Christ and Other Sermons, trans. Leroy Nixon... | |
 | F. LeRon Shults - 2005 - 340 σελίδες
...according to Calvin, is the "mystical union" of believers and Christ, which occurs through the Spirit: "Christ, having been made ours, makes us sharers with him in the gifts with which he has been endowed" (III.n.io). 21. Cf. Muller, PRRD, IV, "The Triunity of God." 22. For an analysis of Luther's pneumatology,... | |
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Christ, having been made ours, makes us sharers with him in the gifts with which he has been endowed. 