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Corporate Personality and Identity Formation Corporate Personality and Identity Formation
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The Hebrew Bible and the Covenant The Hebrew Bible and the Covenant
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Covenant, Story, and Participation Covenant, Story, and Participation
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Glory Glory
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The Old Testament and Jewish Mystical and Apocalyptic Traditions The Old Testament and Jewish Mystical and Apocalyptic Traditions
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Apocalyptic, Eschatology, and Torah Apocalyptic, Eschatology, and Torah
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Apocalypse and Glory Apocalypse and Glory
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The Mystical Texts and Human Encounter with Glory The Mystical Texts and Human Encounter with Glory
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Messianism and its Participatory Implications Messianism and its Participatory Implications
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The Isaianic Servant and Messianic Expectation The Isaianic Servant and Messianic Expectation
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Conclusions Conclusions
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4 Exploring the Backgrounds to Union with Christ
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Published:November 2013
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This chapter surveys the relevant backgrounds to union with Christ in the New Testament, and particularly the developments that have taken place in each area in recent decades. The problems associated with older concepts of ‘corporate personality’ are recognized, but a proper understanding of covenant is found to provide a more appropriate category by which the identification of a people with a representative may be considered. The assumption that apocalyptic and Jewish mysticism are disinterested in, or even hostile towards, covenant is demonstrated to be simplistic. The chapter also examines the theme of glory in the Old Testament, as a necessary background to the glorification of believers in the New Testament, finding this to be a distinctively divine property that is shared with God’s people by means of his presence. Finally, the changing currents in scholarship on messianism are surveyed, with a related examination of the Isaianic Servant.
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