Showing posts with label christology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label christology. Show all posts
Sunday, March 31, 2024

Χριστὸς ἀνέστη!

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That's all. But that's more than enough, isn't it?
Friday, March 08, 2024

What will it be?

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Once again the great dilemma is: either in Jesus Christ we are confronted by the eternal God in history, so that the person of the historic...

Is he God? Or only worthy of honorable mention?

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It is clear now that if we give up the classical christology or even approach Jesus from a purely historical angle, the historical events wh...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

If Christ is not God, then?

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If Christ is not God, if God is not fully and wholly present in Christ and identical with Christ, then God does not reconcile the world to, ...
Monday, February 26, 2024

Finding a christological balance

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[H]ow can we be faithful in our theological statements to the nature of the eternal being of the Son who became man and who yet remains God,...
Thursday, February 15, 2024

Becoming flesh

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However, while we must say all that about the flesh that the Word assumed, we must also say that in the very act of assuming our flesh the Wo...
Wednesday, February 14, 2024

The centrality of the incarnation

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Now when we listen to the witness of holy scripture here we know we are faced with something we can never fully understand, but it is someth...
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Who's at the center?

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The danger lies in a subjective and pragmatic approach to Christ in which it is not Christ himself, but the human subject who holds the focu...

Avoiding that suffering Messiah

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Just as Judaism had consistently avoided the whole notion of a suffering Messiah, so the New Testament witnesses themselves reveal that they...
Monday, February 12, 2024

The centrality of the incarnation

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Everything in Christianity centres on the incarnation of the Son of God, an invasion of God among men and women in time bringing and working...
Wednesday, June 21, 2023

A true Christology

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If Jesus be really Reconciler and Lord, then He is God. Faith knows that this is what He is. “God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto ...
Wednesday, June 07, 2023

Apostolic Christology

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As we look back on the whole course of the doctrine [of Christology], from the beginning, in the testimony of Jesus to Himself, down to the ...
Tuesday, June 06, 2023

Christology of the Early Church

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We know little of the Christology of the Primitive Church; but what we do know wlth complete certainty is enough. The first disciples know an...
Friday, May 05, 2023

Kenosis—never-ending!

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A profound mystery: God becomes a slave. This implies very specifically that God wants to be known through servanthood. Such is God’s own se...
Thursday, April 27, 2023

One sentence sums it up

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Jesus is Lord above all lords is the shape of Christian political life.— One True Life: The Stoics and Early Christians as Rival Traditions ...
Wednesday, March 22, 2023

But it's not supposed to happen that way!

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This [the definition of "Messiah"] is particularly important to remember for the title Christ, for in fact nowhere before Jesus is...

Early Christology?

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Where modern New Testament scholars have routinely believed that Jesus was acclaimed Lord only after his death and resurrection, Luke makes ...
Monday, January 20, 2020

In summary

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At the most basic level, whether we ask these kinds of questions of our congregations or of our individual selves, the New Testament christo...
Thursday, January 09, 2020

The continuing tradition

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One third-century hymn, “Phos Hilaron [Jesus Christ the cheerful light],” is still in use today. The developments in these later hymns are n...
Wednesday, January 08, 2020

So what does it prove?

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First the christological hymns as a whole portray Christ as the exalted Lord who is the ultimate victor over all powers. This victor motif w...