But the new life in Christ simply is not an inner life of belief and imagination, even if spiritually inspired. It is a life of the whole embodied person in the social context. Peter's great revelation of Jesus being the Christ was genuine. But subsequent events proved that it alone did not transform his life. What he lived through did that, as was also the case with our Lord, who "learned obedience by the things he suffered" (Heb 5:8-9). An adequate psychology of redemption must make much of this crucial point, and St. Paul's writings, as well as the rest of the Bible, must be read in the light of it.
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