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August 15, 2006

Rushing Headlong into Mysticism

Amid an interesting book review, Ligon Duncan comments on the root of Reformed piety as situated in the union of the believer with Christ:

To say that the doctrine of that union is widely neglected and/or much misunderstood is, itself, an understatement. While a representively large number of Emergent Church gurus are rushing headlong into Mysticism and theosis (a doctrine in Eastern Orthodoxy that teaches that by participating in the Trinitarian communion by union with Christ, believers are “divinized.”) Mysticism is a far cry from the biblical doctrine of the mystical union (unio mystica) of the believer with Christ, the two are, at time and mistakenly, deemed to be interchangeable, synonymous.

Posted by calvin at August 15, 2006 09:19 PM

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