Comments on: The Cruciform God: Chapter 2, Gal 2:15-21, Part 1

By: Jay Guin

Jay Guin — Sun, 23 May 2010 15:46:34 +0000

John,

Exactly.

By: John

John — Wed, 19 May 2010 08:47:10 +0000

Kenosis –> Theosis.

By: Jay Guin

Jay Guin — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:29:06 +0000

Thanks, Mick.

The real response to Church of Christ disunity is the book of Galatians. Get it right, and everything else falls into place. You just have to be willing to believe that Paul means what he says.

By: Mick Porter

Mick Porter — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:15:08 +0000

Great stuff! I spent several months wrestling with Galatians last year – it was incredible to look at it through an NPP "lens". I found Richard Hays, James Dunn, Gordon Fee, N.T. Wright to all be super helpful in getting to grips with it. Fee, as one would expect, is most helpful in drawing out the implications of what Paul is saying about the Spirit and the church.

I see particular importance in what you're saying here about true boundary markers of the church – quite ironic to read Galatians in this way and to see Christians divide