PROGRESSIVE GLORIFICATION??

By: Guillermo Santamaria

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

“PROGRESSIVE GLORIFICATION?” booklet is a compact polemic + study-aid that does three things in order:

1. Puts the phrase “progressive glorification” on trial.
   The foreword argues that the phrase can sound like gospel brightness while functioning as a ladder that turns the Christian life into “climb higher, shine brighter, prove more,” shifting assurance from Christ to my progress. It insists 2 Cor. 3:18 is a window (behold Christ) rather than a scoreboard (measure yourself).

2. Presents Charles Leiter’s “Law of Christ” material, then critiques it from an Old School Baptist frame.
   You include three Leiter excerpts (love’s higher standard than bare prohibition; “realm of supply” vs “realm of demand”; “cannot be codified… love incarnate”), then an OSB critique that affirms the Christward instincts but warns against:

• turning “law of Christ” into a new law-covenant,

• making sanctification the engine of assurance (“if you don’t see it… be afraid”),

• sloppy providence language (“engineered failure”),

• and reducing Pauline contrasts into a simplistic two-realm diagram.

1. Anchors everything in exegesis: OSB reading, historical reception, and Greek.
   You summarize how OSB tends to read 2 Cor. 3:18 as a Moses/veil/fading glory vs Christ/unveiled/abiding glory contrast—emphasizing Spirit-caused transformation through beholding Christ, not human ladder-climbing. Then you sketch a history of interpretation (patristic → medieval → Reformation → Puritan → Wesleyan → modern idiom debates), and close with a Greek-focused note on apo doxēs eis doxan (“from glory to glory”), metamorphoumetha (ongoing passive “are being transformed”), and katoptrizomenoi (beholding/reflecting).

Bonus appendix: a giant concordance-style dataset on “glory” terms (Hebrew/Greek forms and many references), framed as a thematic resource—but the critique itself notes it can feel disconnected unless clearly integrated.