Showing posts with label Crucifixion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crucifixion. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

The final post from Crucifixion

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The greater part of the discussion in these pages has focused upon the communal, corporate, and cosmic significance of the cross of Jesus Chr...
Tuesday, September 09, 2025

In the weakness of the cross

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Unless God is the one who raises the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist, there cannot be serious talk of forgiveness...

It ain't enough!

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Forgiveness is not enough. Belief in redemption is not enough. Wishful thinking about the intrinsic goodness of every human being is not eno...
Monday, September 08, 2025

creatio ex nihilo and the crucifixion

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The God who is able to create out of nothing is able to create faith where there is no faith, righteousness where there is no righteousness,...

Not by (human) might…

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Human agents can administer justice, up to a point, and human forgiveness can certainly — and often does —— carry with it the power of God. ...
Friday, September 05, 2025

Enraged, but not surprised

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That question sums up a good deal of the argument of this chapter, and it illustrates the willful blindness of all human beings — Gentiles a...

But I'm not like them…

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The Jewish community has every right to be protective of its ingrained, God-given concern for ethics and compassion. The problem among Jews ...
Thursday, September 04, 2025

A prophetic word

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Gross quotes the philosopher Eric Voegelin, who writes that evil regimes are able to recruit “the simple man who is a decent man as long as ...

Regime change!

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The term “regime change” emerged from an unsavory political context, but as an approximation of what the righteousness of God is able to do,...
Wednesday, September 03, 2025

Creatio ex nihilo

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Abraham — an elderly man with a barren wife — has no human potential . Paul emphasizes that Abraham was chosen before he was circumcised (R...

Are we hearing the gospel?

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We are able to participate in the working of God only because of his self-immolation on our behalf and in our place. It is not our spiritual...
Tuesday, September 02, 2025

A particular way of life

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Those who according to Paul are “in Christ” are called to a particular way of life that shows forth the power of his name, the boundless ric...

Over my dead body!

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Christ’s recapitulation of the human story does not simply invite us into the divine life. There is an objective reality about it; it has h...
Friday, August 29, 2025

But its not a pilgrimage

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The Christian life of obedience is, therefore, not a pilgrimage toward a goal, as is commonly supposed. It is a witness or signpost to that ...

Twice! And in one verse, too!

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[In Rom 8:11] Paul puts all three persons of the Trinity into one verse not once but twice , saying in essence that the Spirit of the Fath...
Thursday, August 28, 2025

How is that possible?

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The righteous requirements of the Law have been met in him in order that the righteous requirements of the Law might be met fully in us . T...

What about the scandal?

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In the theology of the cross, the theme of recapitulation ranks high in value. However, there is one problem. Recapitulation alone cannot fu...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Reckon it so!

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In the New Testament cosmology, the life of Jesus culminating in his crucifixion and resurrection is the inaugural event of the age to come,...

It's not just getting wet!

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Baptism is not a simple bestowing of blessing. It signifies a radical shift of aeons, a snatching of the baptized person out of the Enemy’s c...
Tuesday, August 26, 2025

The case for substitution

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The theme of substitution allows full scope for us to understand the depth and completeness of Christ’s involvement in the human condition. ...