‘Too Lowly to Reach God Without a Mediator’: John Calvin's Supralapsarian Eschatological Narrative |
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| Authors: | Edwin Chr. van Driel |
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| Affiliation: | Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
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| Abstract: | In this essay I offer a novel interpretation of Calvin's eschatological imagination and the ways the latter shapes Calvin's overall theological narrative. In addition to his explicit, infralapsarian eschatology, which circles around the reconciling work of the incarnate Christ, Calvin also has an implicit, supralapsarian eschatology, according to which human beings were created for an upward journey toward God, mediated by the non‐incarnate divine Word. Tracing the contours of this eschatology sheds new light on Calvin's account of mediation, incarnation, and expiation, his understanding of the end of Christ's mediatory work, and the contemporary discussion about Calvin and deification. |
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