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Tag Archives: Jesus Christ
The Meaning of Protestant Theology
by Phillip Cary, Ph.D. When Rodney Clapp, the editor to whom I pitched the idea of my new book, originally suggested the title The Meaning of Protestant Theology, I was a bit nonplussed. I knew the central concept of the … Continue reading
Posted in Theology
Tagged anxiety, Conditional promise, faith, gospel, Jesus Christ, justification by faith, Martin Luther, salvation, unconditional promise
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Against Asymmetrical Christology: A Critical Review of Rowan Williams’s ‘Christ the Heart of Creation’
by Jordan Daniel Wood, Ph.D. I When I first met him, he had just given a talk on St. Teresa of Avila, I think. I waver because I had brought along my 18-month old daughter and, well, she wasn’t as … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Theology
Tagged Chalcedon, Chalcedonian definition, Christology, God, incarnation, Jesus Christ, Rowan Williams, two natures
34 Comments
Thinking Trinity: No God Behind the Back of Jesus
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
Posted in Holy Trinity, T. F. Torrance
Tagged George Dragas, Holy Trinity, homoousios, incarnation, Jesus Christ, Thomas Torrance
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Thinking Trinity: So what if Jesus ain’t homoousios with the Father
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
Posted in Holy Trinity, T. F. Torrance
Tagged divinity of Christ, healing miracles, homoousios, Jesus Christ, Nicaea, paralytic, Thomas Torrance
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Thinking Trinity: The Secret of the Homoousion
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
Posted in Holy Trinity, T. F. Torrance
Tagged God, Holy Trinity, homoousios, incarnation, Jesus Christ, Nicaea, Nicene Creed, Thomas Torrance
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Thinking Trinity: The Radical Homoousion
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
Posted in Athanasius, Holy Trinity
Tagged Arius, Athanasius, Christology, God, Holy Trinity, homoousion, Jesus Christ, Nicaea
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The Tactual, Tangible, Carnal Salvation of Christ
Reading Paul J. Griffiths’s Decreation and Christian Flesh I was repeatedly struck by the significance of the sense of touch. Human flesh desires to touch and be touched. “Flesh is haptic,” Griffiths writes, “which is to say that flesh touches and is touched, … Continue reading
Posted in Paul Griffiths
Tagged beatific vision, Body and Blood of Christ, Eucharist, flesh, Jesus Christ, real presence, sacrament, touch
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