Union With Christ Research Paper

Union with Christ was integral in the soteriology of the Reformist , and especially that of Calvin. As Marcus St. Peter President.. President Johnson tone in One With Jesus the Messiah , “when Calvin wrote of being united to Christ, he meant that worshipper are personally joined to the living, incarnate, crucified, resurrected Jesus...this brotherhood with Christ, which Calvin described in strikingly graphic and intimate terms, constituted for him the very essence of salvation. To be saved by Christ, Calvin kept insisting, means to be included in the person of Christ. That is what salvation is” (Johnson 12, emphasis original). And it wasn't just a heady philosophy , either; for the Reformers, union with Christ had multifaceted significance for the life of the truster and the life of the Church. Many, myself …show more content…
Here, Peterson focuses on five passages: Jesus as the bread of life (John 6); mutual indwelling of the Father and the Son (John 10); mutual indwelling of the Begetter and the Son, and the Father and the Son and the believers (John one 4); Jesus as the Vine with believers as the branch (John fifteen); and the mutual indwelling of the Father and the Son and the believers (John 17). The next 10 chapter are dedicated to the Paul corpus, going book-by-book to explore what Paul wrote about union with Christ , which is present tense in all of his biblical writings except Titus. Subsequently, Peterson takes two chapters to summarize union with Christ in Paul's letters, looking at the themes of union in greetings, “in Christ” language, being “in” the Father and the Son, involution in Jesus's tale , the body of Christ, temple, marriage, new article of clothing , filled to the voluminousness , and indwelling. Part 1 concludes with four chapters on the rest of the NT , looking at Hebrews 3:14, the Petrine epistles, 1 John, and