Tag Archives: Jesus

Pascha and the Gospel of Atonement

Posted on 24 March 2024 by Fr Aidan Kimel

What is the atonement? When I look back on my years as a full-time pastor and preacher in the Episcopal Church, I find that at no point did I consistently preach a single soteriological model that answers the questions that … Continue reading →

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Indwelling the Metaphors of Atonement

Posted on 18 March 2024 by Fr Aidan Kimel

In another lifetime I devoted a great deal of time and energy to learning the difference between literal speech and metaphorical speech. While I have forgotten much of what I learned back then, I still remember some of the highlights. … Continue reading →

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The Father Who Lost Two Sons

Posted on 26 August 2023 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Robert Farrar Capon This is about what’s normally called The Parable of the Prodigal Son. That’s only one of the two sons in the parable, the younger boy. The older boy is the one—the other son—who is lost. And … Continue reading →

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Preaching Gospel as Gospel: The Good News of the Resurrection

Posted on 9 May 2023 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Since my first encounter with Robert Jenson’s construal of justification as metalinguistic rule back in the late 70s, I have sought to proclaim the gospel in the mode of unconditional promise. I have often not been successful nor consistent—it’s harder … Continue reading →

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Last Judgment, Hell, and the Spear Wound of Christ

Posted on 5 March 2022 by Fr Aidan Kimel

The Parable of the Last (Final, Great) Judgment—“No one who has heard this parable even once,” Robert Capon remarks, “ever forgets it” (Kingdom, Grace, Judgment, p. 504). It also poses the greatest challenge to Capon’s position on justification by faith … Continue reading →

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The Elder Son and His Refusal to Die

Posted on 15 February 2022 by Fr Aidan Kimel

The music is playing. Singing and riotous laughter can be heard for miles. Gaiety abounds. The aroma of roast veal fills the house. Finally (dum, dum, dum, dum-da dum, dum-da dum) the elder son arrives. But his older son was … Continue reading →

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The Prodigal Son and His Festival of Death

Posted on 12 February 2022 by Fr Aidan Kimel

I daresay that the Parable of the Prodigal Son is the best-known of our Lord’s parables. And it may also be one of the most misunderstood—at least so thinks Robert Farrar Capon. A certain man had two sons. And the … Continue reading →

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Importuning the God of Resurrection

Posted on 31 January 2022 by Fr Aidan Kimel

And he said to them, “Among you, what man would have a friend, and would come to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, Since a friend of mine has just visited me … Continue reading →

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