Affirmation & Critique: A Journal of Christian Thought

The One New Man
Vol. XVIII • No. 1 • Spring 2013

* See Clarification below.

ARTICLES

• The Church as the One New Man: A General Sketch of the Divine Revelation
• The Vision and Realization of the One New Man
• The New Man
• The Practical Expression of the Highest Revelation of the Church in Ephesians: The One New Man
• The Consummation of the New Man: The New Jerusalem
• The New Testament Believers’ Incorporation of the Triune God in Their Spiritual Functions

DEPARTMENTS

• Glossa
  The God of Newness and the One New Man
• Touchstones
  The Heart of the Divine Revelation
• Reviews
  Collins’s Partaking in Divine Nature
  Andreopoulos’s This Is My Beloved Son
  Gunn’s “Psalm 2 and the Reign of the Messiah”
  Johnson’s “A Biblical Theology of God’s Glory”
  Warren’s The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
• Hymns
• The Crystallization
  The One New Man: From Revelation to Consummation

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Clarification: In note 5 on page 84 of the article “The God of Newness and the One New Man” (Spring 2013), there is the statement: “The new man is both created or produced as a new being from nothing that existed before and made or formed from what already exists.” This statement is seemingly in contradiction to Witness Lee’s statement on page 19 of his article in the same issue, entitled “The New Man.” He says, “The new man, unlike the old, was not created out of nothing. On the contrary, the new man was created out of the old man.” The phrase nothing that existed before is better intended to be a reference to the divine life that was not present in the old creation, but this was not clearly specified. The one new man was created from existing elements in the old creation—Jews and Gentiles—but its creation involved an element that was not previously present in the old creation—the divine life and nature. Witness Lee makes this point on page 18 of his article, saying, “There is a basic difference between the new creation and the old creation. God’s life and nature are not wrought into the old creation, but the new creation does possess the divine life and the divine nature.” The following revision hopefully clarifies the note: “The Genesis account first involved the formation of man from an existing element, that is, the dust of the ground, and then his enlivening creation with a new element, that is, the divine breath. In contrast, the one new man was first created on the cross with the divine life from elements of the old creation (Jews and Gentiles) and is now being formed and manifested through the mingling of divinity and redeemed humanity and through the believers’ experience of Christ’s death and resurrection.”