‘In Christ’: a participatory account

Abstract

Paul often uses the phrase ‘in Christ’ in his letters. Teresa Morgan has written an important book that rejects a participatory interpretation of this phrase, suggesting an encheiristic interpretation instead (that it means ‘in his hands’). I provide a participatory view, in terms of a sharing of divine and human minds, in experience, feeling and action. By considering Professor Morgan’s account of ‘en Christo’ in Galatians, I argue that a participatory view adds something important to, without detracting from, an encheiristic view.