arapahoepark
Puritan Board Professor
In reading Tom Holland (a virulent critic of NT Wright and the NPP assumptions), I seem to keep coming across the notion that Augustine 'individualized' everything. For instance, many of our so called interpretations trend toward personalizing texts which he thinks are corporate i.e. parts of Galatians and Romans being about the corporate idea of 'justification' of the Gentiles and that individually we partake (of the 'justification' that took place at the cross by faith.) While, I do not disagree, it is a novel way of talking that seems wrong. In many instances, he says it cannot be extrapolated to the individual. I will have to find more examples. But, how does one counter this? Not trying to committ a fallacy, do not many corporate texts apply to the individual?