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Demarcating deification and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in Reformed theology

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Date
02/06/2020
Author
Leidenhag, Joanna
Keywords
Deification
Theōsis
Indwelling
Holy Spirit
John Calvin
Jonathan Edwards
BT Doctrinal Theology
T-NDAS
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The recent interest in exploring whether authoritative figures of the Reformed tradition employed a concept of theōsis or deification in their soteriology continues to grow. However, it is yet unclear how the supposed implicit Reformed doctrine of deification relates to the more explicit concept of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Moreover, many of the arguments for theōsis in the theology of John Calvin, Jonathan Edwards, or T. F. Torrance seem to rely on confusing these two soteriological concepts. This makes it almost impossible to assess if it is theōsis or the indwelling of the Holy Spirit (or some interesting combination) that is being appealed to in Reformed thinking. This paper makes a step towards unpicking the knot between the indwelling of the Holy Spirit and theōsis in Reformed theology by offering five possible ways to demarcate these two concepts. It is concluded that the final ‘Mereological Demarcation’ is currently the most acceptable
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Leidenhag , J 2020 , ' Demarcating deification and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in Reformed theology ' , Perichoresis , vol. 18 , no. 1 , pp. 77-98 . https://doi.org/10.2478/perc-2020-0005
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Perichoresis
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Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2478/perc-2020-0005
ISSN
2284-7308
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2020 Emanuel University of Oradea. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/20176

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