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Calvin's Christology

Edmondson, Stephen·2004·Cambridge University Press eBooks
DOI 10.1017/cbo9780511487675
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Stephen Edmondson articulates a coherent Christology from Calvin's commentaries and his Institutes. He argues that, through the medium of Scripture's history, Calvin, the biblical humanist, renders a Christology that seeks to capture both the breadth of God's multifaceted grace enacted in history, and the hearts of God's people formed by history. What emerges is a picture of Christ as the Mediator of God's covenant through his threefold office of priest, king and prophet. With Christ's work as the pivot on which Calvin's Christology turns, Christ's person becomes the goal to which it drives: for Christ mediates our union with God only through union with himself. This is the first significant volume to explore Calvin's Christology in several decades. It clarifies an important but perplexing subject in Calvin studies through its focus on Christ's work in history and allows Calvin a voice in the current theological conversation about Christology.

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Authors
Edmondson, S.
Affiliations
Virginia Theological Seminary (US)
Corresponding author
Edmondson, Stephen
Venue
Cambridge University Press eBooks
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Published
2004-07-01
DOI
10.1017/cbo9780511487675
OpenAlex
W639712171
Cited by
39
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Citations by year
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FWCI
1.82
Type
book
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 1909 d)
Locations
Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Karl Barth and Christian Theology
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Reformed Theology and Governance
Keywords
John Calvin, Christology, Institutes of the Christian Religion, mediation, covenant, union with God, grace, biblical humanism, Reformed theology

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