Imputation and Impartation

This book explores the history of the theme of 'union with Christ' in the Reformed tradition. After chapters on the legacy of Calvin and Reformed Orthodoxy, the author uncovers three trajectories in American Reformed theology in which salvation as union with Christ is understood in remarkably different ways. The subsequent twentieth-century history of the theme is also explored. This detailed examination of New England Calvinism, Princeton Calvinism, and the Mercersburg Theology highlights the historic diversity present in Reformed thought, and the implications of that diversity for contemporary Evangelical and Reformed thought.

Publisher: Wipf and Stock
Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781606084786

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William B. Evans is the Eunice Witherspoon Bell Younts and Willie Camp Younts Professor of Bible and Religion at Erskine College in Due West, South Carolina, where he has taught since 1993 and currently chairs the Department of Bible, Religion, and Philosophy. He holds degrees from Taylor University, Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, and Vanderbilt University, where he earned a Ph.D. in History of Christian Thought. His current research interests include American Christianity and religion, soteriology, the history of Reformed theology, the Mercersburg Theology of John Williamson Nevin, the relationship of politics and religion, and world Christianity.

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This book makes a welcome and useful contribution in addressing a central and much debated issue in Reformed soteriology. With its concentration on developments within the American scene since the eighteenth century, it will be of particular interest and value to teachers, pastors and others with roots in that theological tradition. One need not agree with the author at every point to benefit from his uniformly careful research and thoughtful analysis. Richard B. Gaffin, Jr, Emeritus Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology, Westminster Theological Seminary