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• later under the influence of pietism, mysticism, and moralism, the emphasis shifted to the process of individual appropriation of the salvation given in Christ and to its mystical and moral effect in the life of believers.
• Questions about the order of salvation, having reference to the personal appropriation of redemption (ordo salutis), came increasingly to receive attention in preference to questions about the history of salvation (historia salutis).
• While in Luther and Calvin all the emphasis fell on the redemptive event that
• The whole content of this preaching can be summarized as the proclamation and explication of the eschatological time of salvation inaugurated with Christ's advent, death, and resurrection. It is from this principal point of view and under this denominator that all the separate themes of Paul's preaching can be understood and penetrated in their uni...