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spiritual reality of the presence and function of deity within humanity. When Jesus thus dwells and reigns spiritually in those ...

oneness. When he acts He does what He does because He is who He is. His Being is expressed in His activity, and His activity is ...

Dualistic Detachment The failure to maintain the unity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit in the unity of their Being and action ...

The historical Jesus is often remembered as the historical founder of a religion, the history of which can be documented and ana ...

society for the explanation of and debate of theological truths in propositional and sentential precision, with no reception and ...

mankind at large, but when engaged in apart from the outworking of Christ’s life, they remain disengaged from the reality of Chr ...

William Barclay notes that, “There was one mistake into which the early Church was never in any danger of falling. In those earl ...

and imputation of justification in the heavenly courtroom, apart from the spiritual and experiential presence of the Righteous O ...

The divine revelation cannot be detached from the divine reality of the living Lord Jesus. The revelation of the gospel is the r ...

theological objectivities of the restorative action of God in Christ, the spiritual work of God in Christ by the Spirit must be ...

In his book entitled Christianity is Christ, W.H. Griffith Thomas concluded that, “The Christ of Experience cannot be sundered f ...

must maintain the integral oneness of His Being and action by noting both the ontological essence of the indwelling Being of Jes ...

union whereby we become “one spirit” with Christ (I Cor. 6:17). This is not a psychological union whereby we keep Jesus in our t ...

(John 4:24), functions within the Christian. Swiss theologian, Karl Barth, noted that “the being and work of Jesus Christ in the ...

from Jesus Christ. Our spiritual nature as Christians is not an inherent human nature, but has been converted from a nature iden ...

homoousion is the perfection of relational interaction in loving interpersonal relationships. The entirety of who we are and wha ...

Concerning this eternal spiritual life, W. Ian Thomas explains, “Jesus Christ and eternal life are synonymous terms, and eternal ...

experience. It meant that all life is lived in the presence of the love and of the power of Jesus Christ.” 17 Lutheran professor ...

By these spiritual realities of the Christian’s spiritual condition in regeneration we have sought to document the ontological e ...

Such a static and detached understanding of the Christian life encourages Christians to “hold on,” wait, and endure the pathos o ...