Where can I read more about the idea of corporate election?

Prior to running across your site, I had thought that the distinction between Calvinism and

Armenianism had been at extremes of everything predestined and at other extreme, everything free will.

While I realized there was much between the extremes I thought elect was a factor only at the

Calvinistic end of the spectrum. I suspect many think as I did. Daryl, United States.

I agree with you, Daryl, that the idea of corporate election is startling and insightful.

I'm currently dealing with this subject in working on the doctrinectrine of Salvation for volume four of my

systematic philosophical theology. For a preview, check out my Defender's three lessons on

Doctrine of Salvation on our website. One of the most important questions concerning election is whether election is primarily

corporate or individual. That is to say, is the primary object of God's election a group,

which individual persons may choose to join? Or is it individual persons who

taken together constitute a plurality? Augustinians claim that election is primarily God's choice

of individual persons to be saved, whereas many Armenians take the

object of God's choice to be a people for himself. God's election of a people for himself

finds its prototype in God's election of Israel.

Deuteronomy is a foundational document that sheds light on the Lord's choice of Israel.

Moses declares, for you are a people holy to the Lord your God.

The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples of the earth

to be his people, his treasured possession. It was not because you were more numerous than any other

people that the Lord set his heart on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples.

It was because the Lord loved you and kept the oath that he swore to your ancestors,

that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery

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