Thursday, April 24, 2025
"Which one?" as a denominational weapon
There have been times when groups of Christians — especially Protestants of an evangelical persuasion — have rated themselves genuine or false by adherence to, or rejection of, a given “theory” of what happened in Christ’s death. This is a difficult stance to maintain, since the great church councils that succeeded in defining the nature of Christ and the Holy Trinity left us with no equivalent conciliar definition of the cross. This fact in itself is suggestive. Does anyone think that the great minds of the early church were not up to the challenge? It seems wiser to posit that there is a reason for the silence of the sources in this respect, and that the reason favors a multifaceted understanding rather than favoring one theory over against another.—Fleming Rutledge, The Crucifixion, 8–9
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