Book contents
- Biblical Theology
- Biblical Theology
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the Text
- Introduction
- 1 A Method to the Madness
- 2 The God of the Burning Bush
- 3 The God of Golgotha
- 4 The God of the Burning Heart
- 5 The Stars Align in Constellations: The Storied World of the Bible. Part One
- 6 The Stars Align in Constellations: The Storied World of the Bible. Part Two
- 7 The Passion Play and its Sequels without Equal
- 8 Covenanting and Theologizing after the Fall and before the Incarnation
- 9 Covenanting and Theologizing after the Incarnation and before Pentecost
- 10 New Covenanting in the Eschatological Age of the Spirit
- 11 The Election Results
- 12 Where the Reformation Went Wrong
- 13 Faith in the Final Future: The New Creation
- 14 The Threefold Cord: Theology, Ethics, and Praxis
- 15 And So? A Cautionary Conclusion
- Book part
- Annotated Bibliography
- Author Index
- Ancient Source and Scripture Index
11 - The Election Results
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 July 2019
- Biblical Theology
- Biblical Theology
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the Text
- Introduction
- 1 A Method to the Madness
- 2 The God of the Burning Bush
- 3 The God of Golgotha
- 4 The God of the Burning Heart
- 5 The Stars Align in Constellations: The Storied World of the Bible. Part One
- 6 The Stars Align in Constellations: The Storied World of the Bible. Part Two
- 7 The Passion Play and its Sequels without Equal
- 8 Covenanting and Theologizing after the Fall and before the Incarnation
- 9 Covenanting and Theologizing after the Incarnation and before Pentecost
- 10 New Covenanting in the Eschatological Age of the Spirit
- 11 The Election Results
- 12 Where the Reformation Went Wrong
- 13 Faith in the Final Future: The New Creation
- 14 The Threefold Cord: Theology, Ethics, and Praxis
- 15 And So? A Cautionary Conclusion
- Book part
- Annotated Bibliography
- Author Index
- Ancient Source and Scripture Index
Summary
If there is indeed a God who covenants with a particular group of human beings, this inherently raises the question of the nature of the “chosenness” of those people, and why they are chosen – to what ends? As we have already noted, certainly one of the consistent themes of the Bible is that the God of the Bible is an Almighty God. When the discussion turns to the issue of “election” or God’s chosen people, the issue is not whether God is powerful enough to determine the outcome of all things great and small, from the motion of an atom to the largest decision a human will make, or from the way the universe evolves to the way that human history writ large progresses.
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- Biblical TheologyThe Convergence of the Canon, pp. 349 - 385Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019