Tag Archives: Christology

Thinking Trinity: The Radical Homoousion

Posted on 18 July 2019 by

When in A.D. 325 the bishops of the Council of Nicaea declared (1) that Jesus Christ is begotten “from the substance of the Father” and (2) that he is “of one substance” (homoousios) with the Father, they probably did not … Continue reading →

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Jesus of Nazareth—god or demigod?

Posted on 18 March 2019 by

The answer, of course, is neither. Jesus Christ is neither god nor demigod, neither superstar nor superhero. Jesus does not belong to a poly­the­istic pantheon. He is not one deity among many. He is not the Son of God in … Continue reading →

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St Cyril of Alexandria: The One Incarnate Nature of Christ

Posted on 11 January 2016 by

“We say that there is one Son, and that he has one nature even when he is considered as having assumed flesh endowed with a rational soul” (On the Unity of Christ, p. 77; my emphasis). We first note the … Continue reading →

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St Cyril of Alexandria: The Unicity of the Incarnate Word

Posted on 5 January 2016 by

Few theologians in the Christian tradition have asserted the unicity of the God-Man as strongly as St Cyril of Alexandria. God the Word has made humanity his own, he declares again and again, not by the assumption of an already existing … Continue reading →

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St Cyril of Alexandria: The Impassible Passibility of the Kenotic Word

Posted on 17 December 2015 by

“For Cyril,” writes Fr John McGuckin, “the notion of the Eternal One’s self-emptying (Kenosis) as outlined in Phil.2.6f. rises to the status of a master theme throughout his thought—to such an extent that the earthly economy of the Word made … Continue reading →

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St Cyril of Alexandria: Holy Scripture and the Grammar of the Son

Posted on 10 December 2015 by

I recently finished reading On the Unity of Christ by St Cyril of Alexandria. Somewhat surprisingly, I found it slow-going—not because of its philosophical difficulty but rather its exegetical density. Cyril is a biblical theologian, and he would counter the … Continue reading →

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God, Jesus, and the Tuggy Trilemma

Posted on 6 April 2014 by

Dr Dale Tuggy has recently published a two-part blog article addressing the divinity of Christ: “Do the Gospels disagree about Jesus and God.” He proposes that a reflective reader must deny one of these three statements:   1) The New … Continue reading →

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