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Atonement
...; he thinks that the doctrine of an objective righteousness wrought out by Christ was first elaborated, that this ‘met the spiritual need of the conversion ...t once for all’ (  Hebrews 10:10 ). See Propitiation, Reconciliation, Redemption. James Orr. 

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Redemption
...the liveliest gratitude. [[Whence]] ‘the church of God’ was thus acquired ‘by means of his own blood,’ we learn from the new songs of the Apocalypse. I ...[[Sin]] no longer has power over them, and they must show this to be true by the way they live ( Romans 8:2;  Galatians 3:13-14;  Galatia

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Jesus Christ
...nt of view, can be assigned its proper place in the scheme. Further, it is by no means clear that we are right in supposing that there was a JudÃ¦an mi ...;  21:15-16;  28:9,17 ). The Scriptures were understood by Jesus and the Jews of his day to be the Word of God. Jesus claimed that the

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Christianity
...iedel in the Encyc. Bibl . i. 752 ff., and that on ‘Christianity’ by T. M. [[Lindsay]] in the Encyc. Brit .9 [Note: designates the part ...h must have destroyed it, if it had not been founded in truth, and guarded by the protection of an almighty Providence. 

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Justification
...e. It is with reason that Schleiermacher speaks of the communication which Christ makes of Himself to believers as moulding t ...us," that is, being placed by an act of free forgiveness, through faith in Christ, in the condition of righteous men, in this respect, that the penalty of th

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Church
...be a general resurrection, after which the wicked world would be destroyed by fire and the good would receive immortality. Some Church teachers regarded ...chal]] feast (  1 Corinthians 5:8 , cf.   Hebrews 13:10-16 ). In Christ those who are now fellow-citizens have a common access to the Father (&nbsp

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Baptism
...ing forth of Barnabas and Saul. (γ) The tasting of milk and honey by the newly-baptized after baptism (and communion) seems originally to have b ...with water and the Holy Spirit). As the ranks of the faithful are thinned by death (natural or violent), others step forward to be baptized to take thei

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Faith
...akes a believer a sharer in Christ’s salvation, makes him also a sharer in Christ’s mind and character. Literature.-H. Bushnell, The New Life ...t, and calls forth a full and satisfied faith, when beheld ‘in the face of Christ’ ( Rom 5:8 ,   2 Corinthians 4:6;   2 Corinthians 5:18-21 ). </

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Mediator
...ted up from the earth, will draw all men unto myself’; the Cross, followed by the Ascension, will be the means of attracting [[Gentile]] as well as Jew. ...ffectual for the purpose of reconciling us to God, while the condescension by which he approached to man, in taking part of flesh and blood, fulfilled th

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Resurrection
...ne and the Johannine doctrine of the resurrection failed to be apprehended by the Church as a whole, although individuals such as Ignatius show clear tra ...Millennium.]] For the Resurrection of Christ, see, further, Jesus Christ, p. 456 ff. J. R. Willis. 

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Sanctification
...forces that prevent the influx of the new life are broken and overcome one by one ( Romans 8:13,  1 Thessalonians 3:10;  1 Thessalonians 4 ...llen See also [[Ethics]]; [[Spirituality]]; [[Union With Christ]] Bibliography . D. L. Alexander, ed., Christian Spir

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Messiah
...es the most representative type of Messianic expectation, if we understand by that term an anointed Jewish king who was to be the national deliverer. Thi ...d illustration of this is to be seen in the Johannine literature. Here the Christ is identified with the Logos, and His entire career is viewed as an illustr

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Offices Of Christ
...Introduction; Dorner, The Development of the Doctrine of the Person of Christ . ...ation, in which the three offices are not found constantly connected. Thus Christ remains in all respects, inseparably, the Revealer of the Father to man, th

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Death Of Christ
...ng to sin become alive unto God. Literature.—Denney, Death of Christ, Studies in Theol . chs. v., vi., Expositor , VI. iv. [1901] ...tt, The Cross of Christ ; R. S. Wallace, The Atoning Death of Christ . 

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Trinity
...f metaphysical abstraction. "God is a God that hideth himself." "We cannot by searching find out God." "Behold, God is great, and we know him not," ...ulation, we are confronted with this fact. It was regarded as a revelation by the men who shaped its intellectual expression; and it was only in the proc

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Sacrifice
...Apostolic Age2, do., 1897; W. H. Ward, ‘The NT Doctrine of the Relation of Christ’s Death ...of the devil and his prison of hell, remediless forever without mercy, nor by His mercy deliver us clearly without justice or payment of a just ransom; b

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Christology Christ
...versos in Psalms 16, he was guided in the interpretation he gave of v. 10 by any tradition concerning the Messiah. Nor was there in the fact of resurrec ...ed]] Messiah ; TAB, pp. 69-134; V. Taylor, The Person of Christ in New Testament Teaching ; J. Wenham, Redating Matthew, Mark and

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Christology
...rtment of theology which treats of the personality, attributes, or life of Christ. [[Christology]] . See Person of Christ. 

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Redemption Redeem
...ns]] in Theology, 1:15-80; B. B. Warfield, The Person and Work of Christ . ...demption from," the genitive case being used of the object from which the "redemption" is effected, not from the consequence of the transgressions, but from the

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Christ In The Middle Ages
Christ In The Middle Ages <ref name="term_55373" /> ...[Christi]] , 1853 (also English translation); works on Church History by [[K.]] Müller, Moller, Gieseler, Neander, Schaff, and Hase; art. on ‘Chr

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Worship
...ook of Hebrews, by means of typological interpretation, demonstrated Jesus Christ as the greater high priest (chaps. 5,7), the more perfect temple (chap. 9), ...ature of the Christian worship. The connection of the moments, represented by these signs, with the whole Christian life, the connection of inward and di

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Person Of Christ
...elp for the intelligence in the view that while a certain subordination of Christ indubitably forms part of NT teaching, we may still think of Him as being o [[Christology Christ]][[Jesus Christ]]

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Salvation
...hua is found also in  Sirach 46:1, and in Philo, who explains it by σωτηρία κυρίου ( de Mut. Nom . 21). The meaning of &n ...Biblical [[Doctrine]] of Salvation ; J. R. W. Stott, The Cross of Christ . 

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Adoption
...assim (the general subject or this magnificent work is the Sonship of Christ); J. Pearson, On the Creed (ed. Burton, Oxford, 1864), articlei. p ...grace through Jesus Christ.  Ephesians 1:5 . [[Applied]] to believers by the Holy Spirit,  Galatians 4:6 .  Romans 8:15-16 . A blessing of

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Antichrist
...through the flames once more, Antichrist was the Roman Empire represented by a ruler who was hostile to Christianity because it refused to worship him a ...n is the premature counterfeit of the true unity, only to be realized when Christ, God's true [[Vicar]] on earth, shall appear, and all the earth shall "in a

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Miracles
...s see Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols) and Dict. of Christ and the Gospels as above. A. J. Maclean. ...octrine in accordance with God's known word and revelation; for God cannot by subsequent revelation contradict Himself ( Deuteronomy 13:1-5;  G

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Incarnation
...at Christ was a truly human Person, and they were all decisively negatived by the Church in language which no doubt shows a distinct advance in theologic ...incarnate, was one Person in two natures—fully divine and fully human. See Christ. [[Walter]] D. Draughon III 

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Priest
...coat and a white cap ( Exodus 28:40-43). The high priest’s clothing, by contrast, was both distinctive and colourful. ...omans 10:5,  1 Corinthians 9:16; cf.  John 17:18), and selection by church leaders or ‘men of repute,’ with the consent of the church (&nbs

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Grace
...the mental part, but all the parts of a man’s self.]and of such a soul in Christ, like that of the Father in the Son and the Son in the Father.||[Note: | &n ...ng us to "grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and [[Savior]] Jesus Christ." The Book of Revelation also begins with a salutation and closes with a be

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Christ In Reformation Theology
Christ In Reformation Theology <ref name="term_55370" /> ...gious experience proved that alike in prayer, in worship, and in teaching, Christ filled the whole sphere of God. Jesus was God appearing in history and addr

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Sabbath
...the possession. Beside, he intended to inculcate humanity upon his people, by commanding that they should resign to the slaves, the poor, and the strange ...e Sabbath and ought still to be observed by Christians (see a curious work by Francis Bampfield written to show that the seventh-day Sabbath is the desir

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Reconciliation
...i> (v.); art. ‘Reconciliation’ in Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible; works by Stevens and Denney cited above. See also F. W. Robertson, Serm . i ...s, then, for us to be reconciled to God is to avail ourselves of the means by which the anger of God toward us is to be appeased, which the New [[Testame

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God
...ne of thought that produced the Fourth Gospel; and not to have been spoken by our Lord. (3) In support of this it is urged that as a matter of fact, the ...here suffice. It is perhaps enough to show that the revelation which Jesus Christ made caused an immeasurable enlargement of the world’s conception of God.

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Imputation
...may be defined thus: it is God's gracious donation of the righteousness of Christ to believers, and his acceptance of their persons as righteous on the accou ...of another; as, the imputation of the sin of Adam, or the righteousness of Christ.''' '''(3):''' ''' The act of imputing or charging; attribution; a

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Christ
...usand worlds. Surely, the reader will never think of the subject, in which Christ appears thus lovely and endeared, without crying out with the apostle, "Tha Some types of CHRIST: Aaron,  Exodus 28:2 (c) Adam,  Genesis 5:2 (c)

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Covenant
...iatory interpretation of the Saviour’s death (cf. Denney, The Death of Christ , pp. 65–85, where the preceding points are luminously discussed). < .../i> ; J. Murray, The Covenant of Grace ; O. P. Robertson, The Christ of the Covenants ; G. Van Groningen, MessianicRevelation in the Ol

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Ascension
...rist,’ ib. ii.; A. S. Martin, article‘Ascension,’ in Dict. of Christ and the Gospels i.; J. G. Simpson, article‘Ascension,’ in Hast ...:39 ). An eternal character is thus given to the sacrifice of the death of Christ, which becomes efficacious through the exaltation of His crucified and rise

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Apostle
...le,’ in Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols) , Dict. of Christ and the [[Gospels]] , Encyclopaedia Biblica , and Encyclo ...by men to maintain the law of Moses, but now an Apostle and envoy of Jesus Christ. &c. St. Jerom, though he does not believe that St. Paul had been

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Inspiration
...they say, asserts that the doctrines of Christianity were revealed to him by the almighty agency of God himself; and, finally, that the inspiration of t ...and the Bible , by R. F. Horton; A Tenable Theory of Insp ., by Professor Wood; cf. also the present writer’s The Bible: its Origin a

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Gnosticism
...ficult to determine to what extent Christianity was permanently influenced by Gnosticism. Theological prejudice will always affect the answer, and some w ...however, large extracts from his independent reading of Gnostic works; and by Epiphanius, who also gives a few valuable additions from other sources. The

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Preaching Christ
Preaching Christ <ref name="term_56927" /> ...ouls: they live in Him, and all the functions of their life are determined by Him. St. Paul has confidence in the Lord toward the Thessalonians

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Parousia
...erations will be manifested at the visitation (ἐπισκοπῇ) of the Kingdom of Christ; the combination of  Isaiah 26:20 and  Ezekiel 37:12, possibly fr ...ich it will occur; but among those who still await a literal appearance of Christ in the air it is usual to regard the Parousia as likely to occur immediatel

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Gospel
...’ (cf. the Scots [[Paraphrase]] [56], ‘Thus faith approves itself sincere, by active virtue crowned’). But white all real opposition between the apostl ...> See also [[Death Of Christ]]; [[Faith]]; [[Grace]]; [[Jesus Christ]]; [[Kerygma]] ; [[Salvation]] Bibliography . W.

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Love
...reserved for the description of the attitude of the world towards God and Christ and believers. The hatred of the world explains the righteous wrath of God ...d [[Testament]] the special love that God had for [[Israel]] was signified by the Hebrew word chesed. It is difficult to find an exact equivalent of this

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Book Of Ephesians
...k in wisdom ( Ephesians 5:15-21 ). [[C.]] The application of redemption in domestic life ( Ephesians 5:22-6:9 ) 1. [[Mutual]] duties

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Mary
...trong> (  Acts 12:12 ). 6. Mary , saluted by St. Paul (  Romans 16:6 ). [[Charles]] T. P. Grierson. ...ole united persons of the GODHEAD for those wonders of redemption by Jesus Christ. "Thanks be unto God, I would say, (will not the reader join my spirit in i

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Propitiation
...ayer of [[Manasseh]] 1:2, London, 1906, p. 31 ff.; J. Denney, The Death of Christ, do., 1902; G. Smeaton, The Apostles’ Doctrine of Atonement, Edinburgh, 1 ...but to be the vindication of the honour and rights of the offended person by such a way as he himself shall judge satisfactory to the ends of his govern

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Christ In Art
Christ In Art <ref name="term_55346" /> ...hn , Appendix iii., cites the Patristic authorities. The dictionaries by Smith-Cheetham ( [[Dc]] [[A]] [Note: [[Ca]] Dictionary of Christia

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Resurrection Of Christ
...in the NT, corroboration of the fact may be derived from the light thrown by it on what we are told of the Lord’s brethren after the Resurrection. Tha ...t especially a small but admirable [[Essay]] on the Resurrection of Christ by Mr. Dore. Bish. Horsely. 

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Regeneration
...in Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols)by J. V. Bartlet, in Dict. of Christ and the Gospelsby J. Denney, and literature there cited; works on NT Theolo ...nto the life the experience of the newborn child of God. ‘If any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things are passed away; behold, they are bec

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