THE MERGING OF THEOLOGY AND SPIRITUALITY by Larry S. McDonald

Author:Larry S. McDonald
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781461690887
Publisher: University Press of America,® Inc.
Published: 2013-12-03T16:00:00+00:00

NOTES

1. Eugene Peterson, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005), 13.

2. Peterson, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places, 6.

3. Peterson, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places, 6.

4. McGrath's writings on the work of Christ for salvation include sections in Christian Theology, 386-422; Evangelicalism and the Future of Christianity, 72-75; A Passion for the Truth, 220-238;"A Particularist View: A Post-Enlightenment Approach, " Four Views of Salvation and Studies in Doctrine, 82-121 and 353-453; Justitia Dei;"Justification by Faith, " in The New Dictionary of Christian Ethics and Pastoral Theology, 1995; and" Sin and Salvation, " in The New Dictionary of Christian Ethics and Pastoral Theology, 1995.

5. See McGrath, Christian Theology, 2d ed., 317-3 21.

6. McGrath, Christian Theology, 388. Also, see Colin E. Gunton, The Actuality of Atonement (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1989), 160-167 for his section on substitution.

7. McGrath, Christian Theology, 388.

8. McGrath, Christian Theology, 389.

9. This summary of McGrath's four images of the cross is taken from Christian Theology, 390-412. Overlapping and interrelated to these four images of the cross are presentations McGrath makes in his other works. In What was God Doing on the Cross, 45-85, he uses five images of the cross: a battlefield, a court of law, a rehabilitation clinic, a prison, and a hospital. In Studies in Doctrine, 90, McGrath identifies three categories of the cross: transactional, legal, and personal.

10. McGrath, Christian Theology, 391.

11. McGrath, Christian Theology, 395.

12. McGrath, Christian Theology, 399.

13. McGrath, Studies in Doctrine, 111.

14. For McGrath's presentation of these models see Studies in Doctrine, 111 and Christian Theology, 402-403.

15. McGrath, Christian Theology, 403.

16. McGrath, Christian Theology, 403.

17. McGrath, Christian Theology, 403.

18. See Leon Morris, The Apostolic Preaching of the Cross (Grand Rapids: Eerd-mans, 1955); J. I. Packer, "What did the Cross Achieve? The Logic of Penal Substitution, " Tyndale Bulletin 25 (1974): 3-45; and John R. W. Stott, The Cross of Christ (Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1986).

19. McGrath, Studies in Doctrine, 98.

20. McGrath, What was God Doing on the Cross?, 47-48.

21. McGrath, Studies in Doctrine, 82-83. Although not specifically identified in his works, McGrath appears to differ with leading evangelicals on this point. British evangelical John Stott states, "the biblical doctrine of atonement is substitutionary from beginning to end." See Stott, The Cross of Christ, 10. Also, American evangelical Millard Erickson states the penal substitution theory is the central theme of the atonement. See Erickson, Christian Theology, 2d ed., 818-840.

22. McGrath, Studies in Doctrine, 358.

23. McGrath, Studies in Doctrine, 399.

24. McGrath, Studies in Doctrine, 401.

25. McGrath, Studies in Doctrine, 408.

26. McGrath, Studies in Doctrine, 408.

27. McGrath, Studies in Doctrine, 408.

28. For McGrath's discussion of these three dimensions see Studies in Doctrine, 408-453.

29. McGrath, Studies in Doctrine, 427.

30. McGrath, Studies in Doctrine, 436.

31. See David L. Larsen, Biblical Spirituality: Discovering the Real Connection Between the Bible and Life (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2001), 169. Larsen sees evidence of evangelicals hedging on forensic justification. Along with McGrath, he identifies Roger Olson, Gabriel Fackre, N. T. Wright, and James Dunn.

32. See William S.

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