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Salvation as participation in the humanity of the Mediator in Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion: a reply to Carl Mosser

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 June 2005

Jonathan Slater
Jonathan Slater
Affiliation:
Faculty of Divinity, Trinity College, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [email protected]
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Abstract

In a recent article, Carl Mosser argues that deification is present in the theology of John Calvin. While his thesis may have ecumenical promise, there is little evidence to support it. Rather than understanding salvation as a communication of properties from Christ's divine nature to his human nature so that through Christ's human nature we may come to share in the divine nature, Calvin's position is that believers share in what is Christ's according to his human nature. The righteousness of Christ with which we are clothed is the righteousness of his human obedience as Mediator. Far from emphasizing a communication of properties from Christ's divinity to his humanity, Calvin's concern is to guard the full integrity of both natures.

Type
Research Article
Information
Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 58 , Issue 1 , February 2005 , pp. 39 - 58
Copyright
© Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 2005

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