| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Creaturely Holiness | Webster believes that creaturely holiness follows from God's gracious consecration of human persons. |
| Webster uses Ephesians 4:1 "He chose us in him (Christ) before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy" in order to teach us that: | sanctification is really a matter of election |
| Mortification and Vivification are terms / events that have to do with the following: | holiness as the laying aside of all that was put to death on the cross and a living out all that has been alive in Christ's resurrection. |
| Sanctification means: | that through God's work, we are made holy |
| John Calvin | penned the claim that "Christ was given to us by God's generosity, to be grasped and possessed by us in faith. By partaking of him, we principally receive a double grace: namely, that being reconciled to God through Christ's blamelessness, we may have in heaven instead of a Judge a gracious Father; and secondly, that sanctified by Christ's spirit we may cultivate blamelessness and purity of life." |
| A "formed life" | is a way of expressing the sense that sancitification is God's gift of a life of extemporary response to God |
| holiness as participation | because holiness is alien, we are 'holy' in as much as we share in the life of Christ |
| Hebrews 2:10-11 | shows us that we are sanctified in Christ and therefore have one common Father |
| adoption | this is central to a biblical understanding of holiness - it reminds us that we are not holy by virtue of the exercise of our will |
| double grace | Calvin speaks of the gift of Christ as a "double grace" which includes both justification and sanctification |
| Barth on sanctification | "As we are not asked to sanctify ourselves. Our sanctification consists in our participation in His sanctification as grounded in the efficacy and revelation of the grace of Jesus Christ." |
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