JONATHAN EDWARDS’S DOCTRINE OF JUSTIFICATION IN ITS RELATIONS TO COVENANTS AND THE ROLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
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발행사항
서울 : Torch Trinity Graduate University, 2020
학위논문사항
학위논문(박사)-- Torch Trinity Graduate University : Ph.D. Historical and Theological Studies 2020.2
발행연도
2020
작성언어
영어
발행국(도시)
서울
형태사항
x, 252 p. ; 26 cm
일반주기명
지도교수: Choi, Michael J.
UCI식별코드
I804:11075-200000282226
소장기관
Edwards’s doctrine of justification has been interpreted into different and contradictory views. Some have read into Edwards’s teaching a quasi-Catholic view of justification. In this dissertation, I argue that Edwards’s doctrine of justification, which is informed by and rooted in his understanding of the covenants, enables him on the one hand to exclude legalism, and on the other hand to avoid the error of antinomianism, through a unique emphasis on the Holy Spirit’s indwelling in the soul as a disposition for faith, perseverance of faith and inherent holiness. Edwards highlights the role of the Holy Spirit in his Trinitarian view of justification, so that the Holy Spirit’s indwelling as a disposition in the believer gives a firmer ontological basis not only for maintaining justification without human merits, but also for the necessity of good works and perseverance of faith and holiness. Edwards’s Arminian contemporaries considered that the Apostle Paul did not exclude moral works, but merely ceremonial law in his teaching on justification. Therefore, their view of justification is legalistic because faith is seen as meritorious obedience for justification. On the other side, Antinomianism tended to deny the importance of Christian holiness and works. Rooted in his understanding of the theology of the covenants, with a unique understanding of the Holy Spirit’s role in justification, Edwards not only maintains the Reformed consensus of justification is sola gratia and sola fide, but also emphasizes the necessity of good works and perseverance of faith and holiness. Edwards sees that the distinction between the Covenant of Works and Covenant of Grace lies in the doctrine of justification. In the Covenant of Works, which is the eternal rule of God’s righteousness, justification is by the perfect obedience of Adam. After the fall, since all are sinful and under the curse of the law, justification only comes through the Covenant of Grace, solely on the basis of Christ’s righteousness imputed by faith alone. And faith itself is not meritorious, because it is not merely a promise of the Covenant of Redemption, but also a result of the indwelling Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit in regeneration does not merely assist man’s natural faculties, but communicates his own nature to the elect so that he or she could have a sense of the divine excellency of Christ and thus willingly receive him as the only Lord and savior. For Edwards, justifying faith is the soul’s active union with Christ. Thus, there is only a natural fitness, rather than moral fitness in faith that only those who believe can be united with Christ and have an interest in him. The cause of the union with Christ is not faith, but the work of the indwelling Holy Spirit. Therefore, good works, inherent holiness, as well as faith cannot be the basis of justification. On the contrary, though good works and perseverance of faith and holiness are not the basis of justification, they are necessary for salvation as the expressions of the justifying faith. This stems from his unique and profound understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit in the intra-Trinitarian Covenant of Redemption. Edwards significantly emphasizes the role of the Holy Spirit in redemption by speaking of the Holy Spirit as the ultimate good or benefit purchased by Christ for the elected in the Covenant of Redemption. Therefore the Holy Spirit as the divine love or beauty of the Trinity is forever communicated to the elected. The ad-intra Trinitarian life of God is replicated or reflected in the ad-extra economic work of the redemption by the Trinity. It is through the Holy Spirit’s indwelling in the soul as a vital principle or disposition that the believers receive all the spiritual good in this life and in heaven. Edwards does not only maintain the Reformed consensus of sola gratia and sola fide by attributing faith and union with Christ as the result of the indwelling Holy Spirit, but also argue for the necessity of good works and the perseverance of holiness as the inadequate fruit or expression of faith in justification and salvation. Justification does not depend on sanctification, but they are inseparable. Only those who are regenerated are justified, but one is also immediately and finally justified in the first act of faith when he or she is regenerated. Therefore, Edwards’s Trinitarian view of justification has its foundation in his theology of the covenants, without which his doctrine would be unintelligible. And Edwards’s emphasis of the Holy Spirit’s role in justification is not only a fortification but also an advancement of the Reformed understanding of justification.
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