The King’s Park Conference Centre, Northampton, was the new venue for the biannual Affinity theological conference in early Spring.
Uniquely, the papers are made available via Dropbox a few weeks earlier, then at the conference an opening outline is followed by small group discussion followed by a summary.
The first papers looked at ‘Union with Christ’ from an exegetical stance. Tim Ward focused on the apostle Paul’s teaching in Galatians. For Paul, union with Christ is the basic fact of Christianity and Tim showed how, in Galatians, the justification of the believer is the articulation of one particular aspect of that union. Cornelis Bennema (of WEST) focused on union in the apostle John’s writings. After a careful analysis he suggested a new category for us: relational ontology.
