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Union with Christ

Type: Doctrine

Alternate Labels

  • In Christ
  • Mystical Union
  • Union to Christ
  • Theosis
  • Deification

Reading List

0. Key Passages

  • 1 Corinthians 15:22
  • 2 Corinthians 5:14
  • Galatians 2:20
  • Ephesians 1:4
  • Ephesians 2:6
  • Colossians 3:3–4
  • 2 Timothy 1:9

1. Articles

1.1. In Bible Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

  • Meye, Robert P. “Union with Christ.” In “Spirituality.” Dictionary of Paul and His Letters, edited by Gerald F. Hawthorne, Ralph P. Martin, and Daniel G. Reid, 433–36. Downers Grove: IVP, 1993.
  • O’Brien, Peter T. “Being ‘in Christ.’” In “Mysticism.” Dictionary of Paul and His Letters, edited by Gerald F. Hawthorne, Ralph P. Martin, and Daniel G. Reid, 624. Downers Grove: IVP, 1993.
  • Rightmire, R. David. “Union with Christ.” Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, edited by Walter A. Elwell, n.p. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1996.
  • Seifrid, Mark A. “In Christ.” Dictionary of Paul and His Letters, edited by Gerald F. Hawthorne, Ralph P. Martin, and Daniel G. Reid, 908–09. Downers Grove: IVP, 1993.
  • Witherington, Ben, III. “The En Christō Formula.” In “Christ.” Dictionary of Paul and His Letters, edited by Gerald F. Hawthorne, Ralph P. Martin, and Daniel G. Reid, 98–99. Downers Grove: IVP, 1993.

1.2. In Theological Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

  • Achtemeier, P. Mark. “Union with Christ (Mystical Union).” Encyclopedia of the Reformed Faith, edited by Donald K. McKim and David F. Wright, 379–80. Louisville, KY: WJK, 1992.
  • Baker, J. P. “Union with Christ.” New Dictionary of Theology, edited by Sinclair B. Ferguson, David F. Wright, and J. I. Packer, 697–99. Downers Grove: IVP, 1988.
  • Dinzelbacher, Peter. “Mystical Union.” The Encyclopedia of Christianity, edited by Erwin Fahlbusch, Han Milič Lochman, John Mbiti, Jaroslav Pelikan, and Lukas Vischer, translated by Geoffrey William Bromiley, 3:670–72. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003.
  • Walvoord, J. F. “Identification with Christ.” Evangelical Dictionary of Theology. 2nd ed., edited by Walter A. Elwell, 588. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic.

1.3. In Theological Journals

2. Chapters or Sections

2.1. In Systematic Theologies

  • Berkhof, Louis. “The Mystical Union.” In Systematic Theology. 4th ed., 447–53. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996.
  • Berkouwer, G. C. “‘Mystical’ Union with Christ” and “Union and Communion.” In The Church, translated by James E. Davison, 84–91. Vol. 14 of Studies in Dogmatics. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1976.
  • Boice, James Montgomery. “Union with Christ.” In Foundations of the Christian Faith: A Comprehensive and Readable Theology. Rev. ed., 388–98. Downers Grove: IVP, 1986.
  • Brakel, Wilhelmus à. “The Communion of Believers with Christ and with Each Other.” In The Christian’s Reasonable Service, translated by Bartel Elshout, 2:86–106. Morgan, PA: Soli Deo Gloria, 1992.
  • Buswell, J. Oliver, Jr. “The Mystical Union.” In A Systematic Theology of the Christian Religion, 2:217–26. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1963.
  • Chafer, Lewis Sperry. “The Believer’s Position in Christ.” In Systematic Theology, 4:92–100. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1976.
  • Culver, Robert Duncan. “The Doctrine of Union with Christ.” In Systematic Theology: Biblical and Historical, 664–70. Ross-shire, Great Britain: Christian Focus, 2005.
  • Dabney, Robert Lewis. “Union to Christ.” In Systematic Theology, 634–39. Carlisle, PN: Banner of Truth, 1996.
  • Demarest, Bruce A. “The Doctrine of Union with Christ.” In The Cross and Salvation: The Doctrine of Salvation. Foundations of Evangelical Theology, edited by John S. Feinberg, 313–44. Wheaton: Crossway, 1997.
  • Erickson, Millard J. “Union with Christ.” In Christian Theology. 2nd ed., 961–67, 987. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 1998.
  • Gill, John. “Of the Eternal Union of the Elect of God unto Him.” In Complete Body of Doctrinal and Practical Divinity; or, A System of Evangelical Truths, Deduced from the Sacred Scriptures, 1:290–94. London, 1796.
  • Grudem, Wayne A. “Union with Christ.” In Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine, 840–50. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2004.
  • Hodge, A. A. “Union of Believers with Christ.” In Outlines of Theology, 369–74. New York: Robert Carter, 1863.
  • Hodge, Charles. “Union with Christ.” In Systematic Theology, 3:104. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1960.
  • Holloman, Henry W. “Discovering the New You in Christ: United with Christ in Sanctification.” In Understanding Christian Theology, edited by Charles R. Swindoll and Roy B. Zuck, 961–70. Nashville: Nelson, 2003.
  • Oden, Thomas C. “Union with Christ and Sanctification.” In Life in the Spirit. Vol. 3 of Systematic Theology, 205–57. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992.
  • Reymond, Robert L. “Union with Christ.” In A New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith. 2nd ed., 736–39. Nashville: Nelson, 1998.
  • Smith, Morton H. “Union with Christ.” In Systematic Theology, 2:491–98. Greenville, SC: Greenville Seminary Press, 1994.
  • Strong, Augustus H. “Union with Christ.” In Systematic Theology: A Compendium and Commonplace Book Designed for the Use of Theological Students, 3:795–809. Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1907.

2.2. In Other Books

External books

  • The Ground of Union: Deification in Aquinas and Palamas by A. N. Williams
  • The Deification of Man: St. Gregory Palamas and the Orthodox Tradition (Contemporary Greek Theologians Series , No 2) by Georgios I. Mantzaridis, Liadain Sherrard and Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia

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