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Tag Archives: Jesus Christ
Penal Substitutionary Atonement and the Living Christ
The glorification of the Son of God is the glorification of the human race, for the glory of God is the glory of man, and that glory is love! ~ George MacDonald ~ Good Friday—on this day Christians around the … Continue reading
The Caponian Vision of (Almost) Apokatastasis
Having completed my series on the parables of Jesus as interpreted by Robert Farrar Capon, I’d like to bring into the discussion his soteriological reflections as presented in his books The Mystery of Christ, published in 1993, and Between Noon … Continue reading
The Hermeneutics of Perdition: When Hell Trumps Gospel
In his article “Christian Universalism: Will Everyone Finally Be Saved?” Fr Lawrence Farley invites us to examine Scripture closely, in the confidence that if we do so, we will see that the hope of final reconciliation is false—so perspicuous is … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Eschatology
Tagged apocatastasis, Easter, eternal damnation, Gehenna, hell, hermeneutic of Pascha, hermeneutics, Jesus Christ, perdition
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Roland, Rebirth, and Resurrection: A Comparative Eschatology of Paramahansa Yogananda and Origen of Alexandria
by David Armstrong The last century has seen a lot of great scholarship on a variety of interrelated topics in biblical studies, with some helpful new starting points for doing critical work on Jewish and Christian antiquity. On the one … Continue reading
Posted in Eschatology
Tagged Buddhism, David Hart, Hinduism, Jesus Christ, Origen, reincarnation, resurrection, Yogananda
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American gods, American idols
by John Stamps “My little children, guard yourselves from idols.” (1 John 5:21) The US is not and never has been secular. We are awash with gods. Gods and goddesses surround us. The whole universe is filled with deities. We … Continue reading
Posted in John Stamps
Tagged America, capitalism, Christianity, Eugene McCarraher, idolatry, Jesus Christ, natioinalism, secularism, social justice
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Desiring Dragons
by Jonathan Geltner Part I: Glimpse But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting … Continue reading
Posted in Inklings & Company, Mythopoeia
Tagged Bilbo Baggins, fairie, fairy tales, fantasy, God, Jesus Christ, myth, Tolkien
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Faith-as-Trust and Faith-as-Authentication
by Semyon Frank Semyon Lyudvigovich Frank was, in the judgment of his biographer Philip Boobbyer, “arguably Russia’s greatest twentieth-century philosopher.” Born in 1877 in Moscow and raised in Judaism, Frank became a revolutionary atheist as a teenager, before reflection led … Continue reading
Posted in Theology
Tagged authority, faith, God, Jesus Christ, knowledge, revelation, Russian philosophy, Semyon Frank, world religions
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Apollinarius and the Truncated Humanity of Christ
Virtually all I know about Apollinaris of Laodicea is that his heresy elicited a memorable response from St Gregory the Theologian: “What has not been assumed has not been healed.” So in preparation for reading the letters of Gregory to … Continue reading
Eclectic Orthodoxy 