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Christian Character Formation, 2019
This work investigates worship and formation in view of Christian anthropology, particularly unio... more This work investigates worship and formation in view of Christian anthropology, particularly union with Christ. Traditions which value justification by faith wrestle to some degree with how to describe and encourage ethical formation when salvation and righteousness are presented as gracious and complete. The dialectic of law and gospel has suggested to some that forgiveness and the advocacy of ethical norms contend with each other. By viewing justification and formation in light of Christ’s righteousness which is both imputed and imparted, it is more readily seen that forgiveness and ethics complement each other. In justification, God converts a person, by which he grants new character. Traditional Lutheran anthropology says that this regeneration grants a new nature in mystical union with Jesus Christ. Considering Oswald Bayer’s “suffering” the word of Christ, Louis-Marie Chauvet’s “symbolic order” and Bernd Wannenwetsch’s understanding of worship as Christianity’s unique “form of...
... Barth's rejection of the analogia entis challenges the relationship of nature and grace ... more ... Barth's rejection of the analogia entis challenges the relationship of nature and grace presupposed in Thomistic virtue ethics, where "grace does not destroy nature but perfects it." For ThomasAquinas, human nature must already be open to grace in order to receive it. ...
Christian Character Formation, 2019
This work investigates worship and formation in view of Christian anthropology, particularly unio... more This work investigates worship and formation in view of Christian anthropology, particularly union with Christ. Traditions which value justification by faith wrestle to some degree with how to describe and encourage ethical formation when salvation and righteousness are presented as gracious and complete. The dialectic of law and gospel has suggested to some that forgiveness and the advocacy of ethical norms contend with each other. By viewing justification and formation in light of Christ’s righteousness which is both imputed and imparted, it is more readily seen that forgiveness and ethics complement each other. In justification, God converts a person, by which he grants new character. Traditional Lutheran anthropology says that this regeneration grants a new nature in mystical union with Jesus Christ. Considering Oswald Bayer’s “suffering” the word of Christ, Louis-Marie Chauvet’s “symbolic order” and Bernd Wannenwetsch’s understanding of worship as Christianity’s unique “form of...
... Barth's rejection of the analogia entis challenges the relationship of nature and grace ... more ... Barth's rejection of the analogia entis challenges the relationship of nature and grace presupposed in Thomistic virtue ethics, where "grace does not destroy nature but perfects it." For ThomasAquinas, human nature must already be open to grace in order to receive it. ...