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I. The Cosmic Christ: Divine Creativity in the Incarnation I. The Cosmic Christ: Divine Creativity in the Incarnation
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The Birth of Jesus and the Remaking of Human Nature The Birth of Jesus and the Remaking of Human Nature
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The Baptism of Jesus as a Cosmic Event The Baptism of Jesus as a Cosmic Event
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Signs of the New Creation in the Miracles of Jesus Signs of the New Creation in the Miracles of Jesus
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Christ’s Passion, Death, and Descent into Hell: Cosmic Renewal and the Subjugation of Evil and Death Christ’s Passion, Death, and Descent into Hell: Cosmic Renewal and the Subjugation of Evil and Death
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The Cross as Immanent within the Plan of Creation The Cross as Immanent within the Plan of Creation
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Conquering Death through Death, and Christ’s Use of Death in Renovating Creation Conquering Death through Death, and Christ’s Use of Death in Renovating Creation
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Resurrection and the Remaking of Corporeality Resurrection and the Remaking of Corporeality
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The Ascension of Christ and the Final Healing of Creation The Ascension of Christ and the Final Healing of Creation
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II. The Creative and Perfective Role of the Holy Spirit II. The Creative and Perfective Role of the Holy Spirit
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Establishing the Trinitarian Dignity of the Holy Spirit as Creator Establishing the Trinitarian Dignity of the Holy Spirit as Creator
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The Mission of the Creator Spirit The Mission of the Creator Spirit
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Animating Animating
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Sanctifying Sanctifying
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Beautifying Beautifying
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Perfecting Perfecting
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III. Summary: Divine Enactment of the New Creation III. Summary: Divine Enactment of the New Creation
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8 Christ the Creator and the Creator Spirit: The Cosmic Drama of the Incarnation and the Remaking of Creation
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Published:October 2012
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Abstract
Chapter 8 explores how early Christian theologians envisioned creation and recreation playing out in the ministries of Jesus and the Spirit. Not just the preexistent but the incarnate Son was active agent of creation and redemption. Patristic theologians thus interpreted individual phases of the incarnation in relation to the economy. Christ’s birth, baptism, miracles, and the whole cycle of his Passion constituted a rich matrix of “new creation” in patristic thought and imagery, with death itself depicted as being pacified and converted from the enemy of life to its vehicle. Jesus’s resurrection remade corporeality itself, and his ascension the capstone of his cosmic reconciliation. Further attention is given to the uniquely creative ministries of the Creator Spirit in patristic thought, analyzed under the rubrics of “animating”, “sanctifying”, “beautifying”, and “perfecting”. The upshot, then, is a panoramic perspective on the drama of the triune Creator’s initiative in enacting the new creation.
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