Union with Christ: A Biblical View of the New Life in Jesus Christ - Softcover

Smedes, Mr. Lewis B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080281963X ISBN 13: 9780802819635

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans-Lightning Source, 2009

Synopsis

How can a person who lived nearly two thousand years ago radically change a human life here now? How can Jesus of Nazareth radically affect us, as persons, to the depths of our being? How can he reach out over the great span of time that divides us from him and change us so profoundly that we become “new creatures” in him? / The answer, according to the Apostle Paul, lies in the fact that Jesus Christ enters into union with us. Lewis B. Smedes believes that union with Christ is at once the center and circumference of authentic human existence. Union with Christ is Smedes' probing and sustained exegetical study of what Paul means when he speaks of our being in Christ and Christ being in us. Hailed as “a thoughtful, discerning, and thoroughly scriptural study” when it was first published in 1970 under the title All Things Made New, the book has been greatly streamline in this edition. By judiciously cutting away what now strikes him as “scholarly clutter,” Smedes has produced a carefully condensed version of his earlier work while retaining its basic substance.

About this title

About the Author:

(1921–2002) Was professor emeritus of theology and ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California. Among his many books are Forgive and Forget, Shame and Grace, How Can It Be All Right When Everything Is All Wrong?, Love within Limits, and Mere Morality.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans-Lightning Source
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 080281963X
• ISBN 13: 9780802819635
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 208