“Partakers of the promise”: participation between covenant and ontology

This essay examines how the Pauline idea of “covenantal participation” might be related to the more philosophically inflected conception of μετοχή that Christianity inherited from Greek metaphysics. I argue that far from constituting what Harnack called “a work of the Greek spirit on the soil of the...

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Published in:Perspectives in religious studies
Main Author: Glover, Adam (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
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Published: [2017]
In: Perspectives in religious studies
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B God / Participation / Human being / Divine covenant / Ontology
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
CB Christian life; spirituality
NBC Doctrine of God
NBE Anthropology
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Summary:This essay examines how the Pauline idea of “covenantal participation” might be related to the more philosophically inflected conception of μετοχή that Christianity inherited from Greek metaphysics. I argue that far from constituting what Harnack called “a work of the Greek spirit on the soil of the gospel,” metaphysical participation in fact frames Paul’s account of covenantal participation in the Abrahamic promise, and hence that the New Testament vision of salvation as covenantal incorporation can be rendered consistent with a broader, ontological conception of participation in the reality of divine Being
ISSN:0093-531X
Reference:Kritik in "Covenant and Participation (2017)"
Contains:Enthalten in: Perspectives in religious studies