Reconciliation
Estrangement healed: God and humanity made friends again through Christ
Reconciliation is the restoration of friendship between God and humanity through Christ. Passages such as 2 Corinthians 5 and Romans 5 speak of God reconciling the world to himself and entrusting believers with a ministry of reconciliation. Where sin had set humanity at a distance, Christ's work bridges the breach, turning estrangement into renewed relationship and peace with God.
How it traveled
- RomansCorinth · 67explains
- 2 CorinthiansPhilippi · 67explains
- EphesiansRome · 67explains
- ColossiansRome · 67explains
- MatthewAntioch · 80applies
- LukeRome · 84applies
- Against Heresies: Book VLyons · 202explains
- The Epistles of Cyprian.Carthage · 258applies
- The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Paul's Epistle to the RomansConstantinople (Istanbul) · 407explains
- The Commentary and Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Galatians and EphesiansConstantinople (Istanbul) · 407explains
- The Homilies of St. John ChrysostomConstantinople (Istanbul) · 407explains
- The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Philippians, Colossians, and ThessaloniansConstantinople (Istanbul) · 407explains
- Homilies on Second CorinthiansConstantinople (Istanbul) · 407explains
- The Homilies on the Statues to the People of AntiochConstantinople (Istanbul) · 407applies
- The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle to the HebrewsConstantinople (Istanbul) · 407explains
- An Exhortation to Theodore After His FallConstantinople (Istanbul) · 407applies
- Expositions on the Book of PsalmsHippo Regius · 430explains
- A Treatise on the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and on the Baptism of InfantsHippo Regius · 430explains
- The EnchiridionHippo Regius · 430explains
- Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. JohnHippo Regius · 430explains
- On the Holy TrinityHippo Regius · 430explains
- The Conferences of John Cassian. Part II. Containing Conferences XI-XVIIMarseille · 435applies
- The Letters and Sermons of Leo the GreatRome · 461explains
- Anselm's Cur Deus HomoCanterbury · 1109explains
- Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59)Paris · 1274explains
- Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90)Paris · 1274explains
- Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from ItGeneva · 1564explains
- Book Second. of the Knowledge of God the Redeemer, in Christ, as First Manifested to the Fathers, Under the Law, and Thereafter to Us Under the GospelGeneva · 1564explains
- Seventeen Occasional SermonsNorthampton, Massachusetts · 1758explains
- XIV Five discourses on the soul's eternal salvationNorthampton, Massachusetts · 1758explains
- Men Naturally God's EnemiesNorthampton, Massachusetts · 1758explains
- Fifteen Sermons. On Various SubjectsNorthampton, Massachusetts · 1758explains
Key passages(20)
Church Dogmatics · Karl Barth
Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from It · John Calvin
21. Let us now consider the truth of what was said in the definition—viz. that justification by faith is reconciliation with God, and that this consists solely in the remission of sins. We must always
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The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch · John Chrysostom
14. Knowing all these things then, make the first advance to a brother; lay hold of him before he has entirely shrunk away from thee; and should it be necessary, to run through all the city on the sam
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But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;
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namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.
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We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
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A Treatise on the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and on the Baptism of Infants · Augustine of Hippo
Chapter 56.—No One is Reconciled to God Except Through Christ. Taking into account all the inspired statements which I have quoted,—whether I regard the value of each passage one by one, or combine t
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Book Second. of the Knowledge of God the Redeemer, in Christ, as First Manifested to the Fathers, Under the Law, and Thereafter to Us Under the Gospel · John Calvin
CHRIST RIGHTLY AND PROPERLY SAID TO HAVE MERITED GRACE AND SALVATION FOR US. The three leading divisions of this chapter are,—I. A proof from reason and from Scripture that the grace of God and the m
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and through him to reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.
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and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby.
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Homilies on Second Corinthians · John Chrysostom
[4.] Ver. 17. “Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature.” For seeing he had exhorted unto virtue from His love, he now leads them on to this from what has been actually done for them;
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leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
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For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
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Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
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The Conferences of John Cassian. Part II. Containing Conferences XI-XVII · John Cassian
So far therefore is our Lord anxious that we should not disregard the vexation of another that He does not accept our offerings if our brother has anything against us, i.e., He does not allow prayers
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The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians · John Chrysostom
Homily IV. Colossians i. 21, 22 “And you, being in time past, enemies and alienatedin your mind, in your evil works, yet now hath He reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you
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The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom · John Chrysostom
Let the initiated hear this, as many as draw nigh in enmity: and let the uninitiated hear too: yea, for the saying hath some relation to them also. For they too offer a gift and a sacrifice: prayer, I
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The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch · John Chrysostom
9. Hath thy neighbour wronged and grieved thee, and involved thee in a thousand ills? Be it so, yet do not prosecute vengeance on thine own part, lest thou do desire to thy Lord! Yield the matter to G
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Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59) · Thomas Aquinas
We have now to consider how Christ is called the Mediator of God and man, and under this head there are two points of inquiry: (1) Whether it is proper to Christ to be the Mediator of God and man? (
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Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59) · Thomas Aquinas
Objection 3: Further, the might of Christ's Passion endures for ever, as, according to Heb. 10:14: "By one oblation He hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified." But deliverance rom the devil'
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Modern teachers who discuss this idea
Modern and living teachers whose books take up Reconciliation. These works are still in copyright, so we can’t show the text here — each links out to the book.
- Karl BarthChurch Dogmatics(1932)View on Amazon→