Deification Through the Cross: An Eastern Christian Theology of Salvation. By Khaled Anatolios
Since Gustav Aulén’s 1930 Christus Victor, it has been common to think of the patristic understanding of soteriology along the lines of various types or models. Scholars in Aulén’s wake have continued to reproduce the method of the models and types while disagreeing about which model or models make...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2023
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2023, Volume: 74, Issue: 1, Pages: 412-415 |
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| Summary: | Since Gustav Aulén’s 1930 Christus Victor, it has been common to think of the patristic understanding of soteriology along the lines of various types or models. Scholars in Aulén’s wake have continued to reproduce the method of the models and types while disagreeing about which model or models make the most sense of the biblical and historical data. Khaled Anatolios’s Deification Through the Cross enters into the conversation about Christian salvation by bypassing the concern to define or create a model entirely. Rather than a model, what stands at the centre of Anatolios’s argument is a concept he calls ‘doxological contrition’. For Anatolios, doxological contrition is first and foremost grounded in Christ’s fulfilment of ‘humanity’s original vocation to participate . . . in the mutual glorification of the persons of the divine Trinity’ and in Christ’s work of saving us by ‘vicariously repenting for humanity’s sinful rejection of humanity’s doxological vocation’ (p. 32). |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flac139 |