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Friday, March 28, 2014

John Calvin on the New Heaven and the New Earth

Several weeks ago I incurred a debt to put up a post on John Calvin on the relationship between creation and redemption vis-a-vis the exegesis of passages that have to do with the new heaven and the new earth, and for once I’m going to try actually to follow through. Previously, I looked briefly at the theme in Augustine and Chrysostom.

The question before us has to do, at least in part, with the “newness” of the new creation. In what respect(s) is it new? Does anything besides our resurrected bodies cross over into the new creation, or is that about the extent of it?   Continue at E.J. Hutchinson

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