10:15AM - Meredith Kline, 1922 – 2007.
Meredith Kline, one of the great biblical theologians of the twentieth century, died last Friday. Perhaps best known for his work on Deuteronomy being a covenantal treaty document, he was professor emeritus of Old Testament at both Westminster Seminary, California, and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
"Man as created was already crowned with glory and honor, for made in the likeness of the enthroned Glory, a little lower than the angels of the divine council, man was invested with official authority to exercise dominion as priest-king in God's earthly courts. Yet, the glory of man's royal functioning would be progressive as he increasingly fulfilled his historical task of subduing the earth, his ultimate attainment of functional glory awaiting the eschatological glorification of his whole nature after the image of the radiant Glory-Spirit."
– Meredith Kline, Images of the Spirit.
"Kline's crucial contribution to the Federal Vision is his theological method, sometimes called symbolic theology, found in such books as Images of the Spirit and Kingdom Prologue. It was on the basis of the symbolic theology that the fathers of the Federal Vision built up its central feature which is its distinctive idea of the nature of worship and the role of clergy as a priesthood continuing Old Testament worship models."
– About the Federal Vision.