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Tag Archives: Jesus Christ
The Three Sisters and Ezekelian Apokatastasis
Ezekiel 16:44-58 This passage in Ezekiel caught me by surprise, and the surprise intensified when I read Robert Jenson’s commentary. I was not expecting an eschatological turn. Suddenly we find ourselves at what might be called a last judgment. Behold, … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Robert Jenson
Tagged atonement, Ezekiel, Israel, Jesus Christ, justification, Samaria, sin, Sodom
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The Irresistible Truth of Final Judgment
And he shall come again with glory to judge both the quick and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end. The Great Assize—I am brought into the courtroom of the Divine Judge. The prosecutor presents a movie of my … Continue reading
Posted in Eschatology, Sergius Bulgakov
Tagged apocatastasis, final judgment, God, Jesus Christ, parousia, second coming, Sergius Bulgakov, universal salvation
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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
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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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