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Leithart spends the last few chapters providing a taxonomy of today's socio-religious landscape outside the Church. He has three designations:
1.) Those still living under the elements (e.g., tribal and more ancestral religions)
2.) Those "on the boundary" whose religion has been Christianized (e.g., Buddhism, Islam, etc.)
3.) Galatianists who were once Christian but have slid back into a world under the elements
— Feb 13, 2025 06:35AM
1.) Those still living under the elements (e.g., tribal and more ancestral religions)
2.) Those "on the boundary" whose religion has been Christianized (e.g., Buddhism, Islam, etc.)
3.) Galatianists who were once Christian but have slid back into a world under the elements
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Chapter 8: Justified by the Faith of Jesus
"Justification" is a Pauline term to describe the atonement itself, not merely to describe the application of the fruit of the atonement to an individual person. The first recipient of justification was Jesus by His resurrection (His resurrection was His justification), and then the world is justified through Him.
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"Justification" is a Pauline term to describe the atonement itself, not merely to describe the application of the fruit of the atonement to an individual person. The first recipient of justification was Jesus by His resurrection (His resurrection was His justification), and then the world is justified through Him.
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Chapter 7: The Faith of Jesus Christ (Part 2)
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Chapter 7: The Faith of Jesus Christ
(In which Leithart defends penal substitutionary atonement)
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(In which Leithart defends penal substitutionary atonement)
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Chapter 2: The Physics of the Old Creation
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Although the shades of popular belief may have different surface features from person to person and group to group (e.g., rationalism, relativism, mysticism, etc.) the core ideology is a form of ontological individualism in the pursuit of a self-defined flourishing where you (the god of your world) are free to define your own being, and the agreed upon societal sacred is centralized around the unfettered freedom of choice (self-creation). (Hence also the ubiquity of credobaptism)*
The purity taboos in such a system are any totalizing ideologies that impose beliefs on others (an attack on self-creation), and a sacred, "secular" space has been carved out to keep any such threats private and permanently out of the public square (or just a small voice at the table, one among the many).
*This is not to make any kind of theological argument against credobaptism, per se, simply to point out that our era is an anomaly in Church history in this regard, and the theological implications undergirding credobaptism fit well within a culture defined by individualism where "choice" is sacrosanct.