| 总结: | Intro -- Series preface -- Author's preface -- Abbreviations -- 1 -- Clearing the ground -- Introduction: where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? -- What is change? -- Why is it so hard? -- Can personal change happen? The gospel and transformation -- On solid ground: developing a biblical theology of personal change -- Conclusion: life in the middle -- 2 -- On being 'us': biblical anthropology and personal transformation -- Introduction: skirting the anthropological abyss -- A helpful starting point: some reflections on psychology, neuroscience and quantum physics -- How does the Bible talk about us? -- Why this matters -- Conclusion: holistic dualism, dualistic holism, substance dualism, integrative dualism, Christian Aristotelian Platonism and biblical common sense -- 3 -- Can a leopard change its spots? -- Introduction -- Plus ça change, or 'character studies revisited' -- The state of the nation -- What kind of change does the Old Testament promise? -- Some objections considered -- Conclusion: so what are we waiting for? -- 4 -- On wine and wineskins -- Introduction: the difference Jesus makes -- Jesus, the Law and the gospel -- Paul and the dynamics of change -- Peter on why things can get better -- James on a life that matches the truth -- Hebrews and the new-covenant life -- John on life, love and happiness -- Conclusion -- 5 -- Pursuing change -- Introduction -- The 'inner life' and biblical change -- Christology and biblical change -- Piety and biblical change -- Conclusion -- 6 -- Changed into his likeness -- Introduction: a biblical theology of personal transformation -- Transformation is a New Testament reality -- God changes us -- God changes us through the gospel -- God changes us by enabling us to respond in repentance and faith -- God changes us in the church and in the world -- God changes us as we persevere.
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