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- Title
Assumption, Union and Sanctification: Some Clarifying Distinctions.
- Authors
King, Rolfe
- Abstract
In this article I engage with the notion that Christ ought to be understood to have a fallen human nature because Christ sanctifies human nature, and it is fallen humanity that needs sanctifying. In opposition to this line of thought, I argue that the Son of God assumed an unfallen nature, but with the powers of fallenness operative within it, and that this notion is consistent with a distinct account of sanctification. In support of these claims, I develop distinctions between a conjoining union and a transferring union, and between the Chalcedonian union at the incarnation and the extension of that union on the cross. At the assumption a conjoining union occurred, not a transferring union. Christ sanctified his own nature, prior to a transferring union.
- Subjects
JESUS Christ -- Natures; SANCTIFICATION -- Christianity; SEPARATION from sin; MYSTICAL union; JESUS Christ -- Humanity
- Publication
International Journal of Systematic Theology, 2017, Vol 19, Issue 1, p53
- ISSN
1463-1652
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ijst.12192