“This is the great power of the Christian gospel – an evangel in which God deals with God on our behalf. Yet to stop here is to do serious damage to the Gospel. Inheriting eternal life, according to Jesus, also demands engagement with our neighbor. And to do this demands a pneumatic dimension – where life through the Spirit is hypostatized and first informs wherein Neighbor is reconciled with Neighbor and togetherness maybe demonstrated en carne in the here and now as an anticipatory expression of what is to come in fullness. ”
— Graham McFarlane, “Towards a Theology of Togetherness,” in The Spirit and Christ in the New Testament and Christian Theology, ed. I. Howard Marshall, Volker Rabens, and Cornelis Bennema, (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2012), 327.
