Sentences with phrase «christian doctrine of election»
In Thomas the Jewish and Christian doctrine of election is pushed to its Gnostic extreme.
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Nygren can include election in his list of the themes which keep the dynamic aspect of the Christian doctrine of God, for election, as we have seen, means God's self - disclosure to a people at a point in history, his creation of a new relationship and the assuming of its consequences.
In his book Introducing Christian Doctrine Erickson (1992:288) wrote «-LRB-...) election is an expression of the sovereign will or good pleasure of God.