Restoring order to the ordo salutis: Conversion normativity in light of recent critique
Given the disparate details of Luke's report on early conversion practices, some scholars have sought to deliver their readers from the difficulty of determining normativity. However, the complication which excites such re-exegesis, at least in terms of the ordo salutis, is often overstated. In...
| Published in: | The Evangelical quarterly |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2019
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The Evangelical quarterly
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament NBK Soteriology RJ Mission; missiology |
| Further subjects: | B
punctiliar conversion
B conversion-initiation B CROSS, Anthony R B normative occasion B WATER BAPTISM B SALVATION in Christianity B Ordo Salutis B Dependency B WATER; Religious aspects B normative order B Baptists B PARADIGM (Linguistics) B Anthony R. Cross B Robert H. Stein B R. E. O. White |
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| Summary: | Given the disparate details of Luke's report on early conversion practices, some scholars have sought to deliver their readers from the difficulty of determining normativity. However, the complication which excites such re-exegesis, at least in terms of the ordo salutis, is often overstated. Indeed, once the intrinsic dependency of conversion-initiation's constituent elements is considered, a general (and essential] order emerges. Even the seemingly mutable moment of regeneration is fixed given a concrete set of conditions. Thus, the only controversy remaining concerns the particulars, specifically which conditions initiate regeneration. |
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| ISSN: | 2772-5472 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Evangelical quarterly
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/27725472-09004001 |