The Deeper Structures
The nature of the union/imputation debate, then, when seen in its broader theological context, poignantly demonstrates that the issues in this discussion are basic not only to a faithful understanding of justification per se but to the christological-pneumatological-soteriological nexus of convictions rooted in the deeper structures of Reformed identity.
Mark Garcia, "Imputation and the Christology of union with Christ," WTJ 68 (2006), 249