Concrete Categories of Jesus' Resurrection

Not only does Paul speak of Christ's death and resurrection as the basic redemptive category that structures union with Christ, but he also thinks in concrete categories about the nature of Christ's own bodily resurrection. Paul understands Jesus' resurrection as his justification, sanctification, and adoption, and each benefit is a distinct-yet-inseparable aspect of the one eschatological act of resurrection.

 

Lane Tipton, "Union with Christ and Justification", in Scott Oliphint, ed., Justified in Christ (Great Britain: Mentor Imprint, 2007), 27