Julie Canlis

Adoption … is not the cause merely of a partial salvation, but bestows salvation entire…

For Calvin, the ladder is Christ — not in the facile explanation that “Christ is the way,” but that our ascent is profoundly bound up in Christ's ascension, by our participation in his ascent. In ...

Ascent is neither the lone journey of Jesus nor the abstracted elevation of the soul, but is the future for an embodied humanity that is copresent with Jesus and his Father.

[Koinōnia] is at the heart of the Christian understanding of the triune God as a rich relationship not between individuals but between persons who indwell one another in a loving harmony of friendship...