Category Archives: T. F. Torrance

“Jesus Christ is God’s unbreakable pledge that he will save and renew his creation”

Posted on 12 May 2022 by Fr Aidan Kimel

If Jesus Christ is, as we believe him to be, none other than God him­self incarnate among us at work for us and for our salva­tion, then Jesus Christ, who is bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, … Continue reading →

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“In the incarnation we have the meeting of man and God in man’s place, but in the ascension we have the meeting of man and God in God’s place”

Posted on 10 June 2021 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Now of course we cannot say that the eternal Logos became flesh in such a way that part of the Logos was excluded—that is what the early Lutherans were afraid of, for the Logos was totally incarnate—nevertheless he remained wholly … Continue reading →

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“The empty tomb points to the revelation of the secret of Christ and as such is the authentication of the Virgin Birth”

Posted on 23 April 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

The Virgin Birth cannot be understood in abstraction from the triumphant consummation of Christ’s life in his resurrection, for it is there that the mystery of his Person is revealed. In fact the birth of Jesus of the Virgin Mary … Continue reading →

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Thinking Trinity: No God Behind the Back of Jesus

Posted on 1 August 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

What if the Nicene assertion of Christ’s Jesus’ consubstantial unity with the Father is not true? In the previous article I focused on the story of the paralytic and Christ’s word of forgiveness and argued that if Christ is not … Continue reading →

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Thinking Trinity: So what if Jesus ain’t homoousios with the Father

Posted on 25 July 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

What would happen to the gospel if the Nicene confession of the consubstantiality of the Father and the Son were not true? Would there be a gospel? Consider the story of Jesus and the paralytic: And when he returned to Caper′na-um … Continue reading →

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Thinking Trinity: The Secret of the Homoousion

Posted on 23 July 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

We believe in one God the Father all powerful, maker of all things both seen and unseen. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the only-begotten begotten from the Father, that is from the substance of the … Continue reading →

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Vicarious Faith, Tom Torrance, and a Few Memories

Posted on 11 October 2016 by Fr Aidan Kimel

It’s not often these days that Eclectic Orthodoxy gets noticed, but over at Reformissio, Jonathan Kleis mentioned me in his recent article “Athanasius, T. F. Torrance and the Vicarious Humanity of Christ,” and I would be remiss if I did not … Continue reading →

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Thomas F. Torrance and the Fallen God

Posted on 29 June 2016 by Fr Aidan Kimel

“Perhaps the most fundamental truth which we have to learn in the Christian Church,” declares the great Scottish theologian Thomas F. Torrance, “or rather, relearn since we have suppressed it, is that the Incarnation was the coming of God to … Continue reading →

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