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Preaching Gospel as Gospel: A Pentecost of Promises

Posted on 16 May 2023 by Fr Aidan Kimel

The gospel is the story of Jesus Christ proclaimed in the performative mode of promise. What this means practically for the preacher is this: each week, through prayer, study, and meditation on the appointed biblical text, he or she must … Continue reading →

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Preaching Gospel as Gospel: Rightly Divide Law and Promise

Posted on 13 May 2023 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Unconditional and Conditional Promises The language of unconditionality has become so commonplace when speaking of the love of God that it is very easy to mistake the statement “God is unconditional love” as an expression of gospel. Perhaps the speaker … 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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The Spiritual Charlatanry of Substitutionary Penal Atonement and Imputational Righteousness

Posted on 26 March 2023 by Fr Aidan Kimel

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 →

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Baptized into the Eschatological In-between

Posted on 8 November 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

For in Christ Jesus the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority. In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by … Continue reading →

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Justification, Faith, and the Radical Question of Existence

Posted on 25 June 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Robert W. Jenson The gospel, in anyone’s version, is a promise that our life will be fulfilled by Christ. When­ever this promise is made, someone will rise and ask, But if he is to bring our meaning, what then is our … Continue reading →

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The Three Sisters and Ezekelian Apokatastasis

Posted on 22 November 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

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 →

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Vicarious Faith, Tom Torrance, and a Few Memories

Posted on 11 October 2016 by Fr Aidan Kimel

It’s not often these days that Eclectic Orthodoxy gets noticed, but over at Reformissio, Jonathan Kleis mentioned me in his recent article “Athanasius, T. F. Torrance and the Vicarious Humanity of Christ,” and I would be remiss if I did not … Continue reading →

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