Posted in Christology, Holy Week and Christ's Passion, Movies and Pop Culture, Prayer on Tuesday, 15 April 2008 | 7 Comments »
This comes perhaps four years late. But such a tardiness is not without design. I have been quite resistant to viewing The Passion, to some degree from “purist” notions. Not purist in the sense of the silly spats among Orthodox as to whether such a bloody portrayal of the Passion was in keeping with “true” [...]
Posted in Christology, Humor, Or Laughing My Fool Head Off, Theology on Monday, 11 June 2007 | 2 Comments »
To the tune of “Supercalafragalisticexpialadocius” …
Um diddle diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle diddle um diddle ay
Superchristological and Homoousiosis
Even though the sound of them is something quite atrocious
You can always count on them to anathemize your Gnosis
Superchristological and Homoousiosis
Um diddle diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle diddle um diddle ay
Now Origen and Arius were quite a clever [...]
Posted in Christology, Ecclesiology, Orthodoxy, Theology on Tuesday, 6 March 2007 | No Comments »
If you want a good resource for looking at the filioque from the Orthdoox standpoint, then The Filioque: An Orthodox Guide by T. R. Valentine is invaluable.
There is also this paper by Stephen Todd Kaster: The Filioque Controversy.
Posted in Christology on Thursday, 27 April 2006 | 2 Comments »
Father Paul Mankowski, SJ begins his critical account of Elaine Pagels’ The Gnostic Gospels, The Pagels Imposture, with the following precis (I have added the hyperlink to the ANF book and chapter cites of the texts in his citation):
I am going to demonstrate that Professor Pagels’s media reputation as a scholar is undeserved, her reputation [...]
Posted in Christology on Saturday, 18 March 2006 | 2 Comments »
From Dr. John Romanides’ St. Cyril’s “One Physis or Hypostasis of God the Logos Incarnate” and Chalcedon:
Both Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian Orthodox accept St. Cyril as the chief Patristic exponent of Orthodox Christology. Yet both accuse each other of not remaining completely faithful to Cyril.
The non-Chalcedonian Orthodox reject the Council of Chalcedon and accuse it of [...]
Posted in Christology on Thursday, 16 March 2006 | No Comments »
More Fr. Georges Florovsky. Fr. Georges, in his essay, Cur Deus Homo: The Motive of the Incarnation (also here in pdf), points out something extremely important that the primarily juridical emphasis in Protestant soteriology misses: The Incarnation is not a stopgap. Whether or not man would have sinned, the Incarnation would still have [...]
Posted in Christology on Thursday, 22 December 2005 | 5 Comments »
Episcopal priest and mother of two, Chloe Breyer, speculates about the illegitimacy of Jesus in her Slate.com article, The Earthly Father - What if Mary wasn’t a virgin? [H/T: T-19]
The allegations as to Jesus’ illegitimate birth go way, way back, to the Jewish leaders of the first century, and the anti-Christian polemicist, Celsus. Such [...]
Posted in Christology on Monday, 19 December 2005 | No Comments »
Let me commend to your listening attention (all links mp3 and will open in your mp3 player):
The Astonishing Christ (Session I)
The Astonishing Christ (Session II)
The Astonishing Christ (Session III)
[H/T Journeyman James and Huw]
Posted in Christology on Monday, 12 December 2005 | 3 Comments »
Andrew, one of the respondents I quoted in my previous post (”Why the Pomo/Emergent Church is Extremely Dangerous”), gave a lengthy reply/defense in the comments to that post. I thought I would engage his comments in a separate post.
Andrew begins:
Clifton, I hope you don’t mind me posting a bit of a defence of the [...]
Posted in Christology on Monday, 12 December 2005 | 7 Comments »
If the post here (H/T: Pontifications) and its many responses are typical of emergent “christology” (and I suspect they are), then the so-called “emergent church” is not a work of the Holy Spirit. For the Spirit Himself gives it us to say, “Jesus is Lord” (1 Corinthians 12:3). (Note: The Holy Spirit [...]
Posted in Christology on Monday, 7 March 2005 | No Comments »
In the online article, “Do You Know Whom You Worship?”, Dr. D. H. Williams, professor of patristics and historical theology at Baylor University, puts to rest a couple of erroneous understandings about the Nicene Creed.
The first is that notion, originally put forth by Walter Bauer, then, debunked, now resurrected by Bart Ehrman and others, that [...]
Posted in Christology on Wednesday, 8 December 2004 | 4 Comments »
I have been very fortunate with my wife’s pregnancies in that they’ve both thus far fallen during the Nativity Fast and Feast. It has afforded me much time for thought and reflection on the Incarnation.
This morning, while reading Douglas’ entry on the Theotokos, he pointed me to the Pontificator’s similar entry. I want [...]
Posted in Christology, The Coherence of Christian Theology on Sunday, 10 October 2004 | No Comments »
The Incarnation and the Church
The Incarnation is not only the dogmatic center from which the spokes of the Trinity, union with God, and the Resurrection extend, but it is the doctrinal foundation of the Church as well. In fact, I do not think it too hyperbolic to state that ecclesiology is Christology. What [...]
Posted in Christology, The Coherence of Christian Theology on Wednesday, 29 September 2004 | 3 Comments »
The Incarnation and the Resurrection
The bodily Resurrection of Jesus from the dead follows necessarily from the Incarnation. If it was essential to God’s work of accomplishing our salvation that Jesus be fully human and fully divine, that is to say, if it was essential that Jesus have a human body, then the human body [...]
Posted in Christology on Wednesday, 29 September 2004 | 11 Comments »
Jennifer has an understandable reaction to the following piece from Touchstone’s Mere Comments of 22 September. The author of the post, S M Hutchens writes:
The argument, made in the name of realism by a number of Evangelicals, that English is changing, so reason demands Bible translations must be altered to reflect changing usage, refuses [...]
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