Nielsen’s Nook

28After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), "I thirst." 29A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth. 30When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, "It is finished," and ...

St. Athanasius. On the Incarnation : The Treatise De Incarnatione Verbi Dei, trans. A Religious of C.S.M.V. (Crestwood, N.Y.: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1996), ...

For better or for worse Modern Reformation published the book review I did on Ed Clowney's posthumous How Jesus Transforms the Ten Commandments.  See for yourself in the Current Issue section of the Modern Reformation web site or read the unedited version on the ...

My wife and I are reading through a most contemplation evoking paper presently on the Eucharist that has sparked a great wonder and awe of God in me. Traditionally, we have thought of God as being of infinitely greater and altogether different kind of being from which we have our being analogously. Even so, one of my favorite theologians begins ...

"Processing with Righteousness", Matthew 5:1-12 ...

justifyingJustification is an act of God's free grace unto sinners, in which he pardons all their sins, accepts and accounts their persons righteous in his sight; not for anything wrought in them, or done by them, but only for the perfect obedience and full satisfaction of Christ, by God imputed to them, and received by faith alone.[1]...the transgression of the ...

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Relevant links: John Meyendorff's Christ in Eastern Christian Thought. Original participation Analogous Freedom of the Image of God Sin as a consequence of servitude to the demonic Redemption as a recapitulation of the human nature in the risen Christ 1Many aspects of the ascetical tradition of the Christian East can present to the Western observer a Pelagian aspect.... [If] one remembers the conception of the image ...

Relevant links: John Meyendorff's Christ in Eastern Christian Thought. Christological Crisis Origenism Integration of neo-Platonic thought Salvation of humanity Humanity's relationship with God Humanity's final destiny Image of God in humanity and the destiny of that image Original Sin Redemption consensus patrumBut original freedom also supposes the possibility of the fall, which the Fathers interpreted as a revolt against God and therefore as a sort of suicide, for a crime directed ...

Relevant links: John Meyendorff's Christ in Eastern Christian Thought. absolute transcendence of the divine essence The natural divinity of the ???? (mind) The knowability of the divine essence This does not exclude ... the meeting between God and created beings; on the contrary, this meeting constitutes the aim and ultimate meaning of beings. It supposes a descending movement on the part of God, out ...

Relevant links: John Meyendorff's Christ in Eastern Christian Thought. Snapshot of Origen. 4. "God Suffered in the Flesh" (1 of 2)theopaschismontologically[On the one hand,] the natures, even after the union, are two, because the uncreated divine essence can never as such be partaken of in any form by the created nature…. But, on the other hand, the humanity assumed by the Logos, ...

Relevant links: John Meyendorff's Christ in Eastern Christian Thought. Snapshot of Origen. The Origenist Crisis of the Sixth Century (1 of 2).materializeThere was ... no incarnation of the Word. There was an abasement of the ????-Christ for the salvation of all creatures, in the various degrees of their fallen existence, in order to restore them to their primitive unity (p 55).Whoever says ...

John Meyendorff's Christ in Eastern Christian Thought Dyophysites: These theologians remained faithful to Antiochene Christology and considered Chalcedon a post humous victory for Theodore of Mopsuestia - and a partial disavowal of Cyril of Alexandria. Monophysites: Considered Chalcedon a return to Nestorianism. Rejecting the council they retained Cyril's formulation "one single incarnate nature of the God-Word" which undoubtedly consisted of "two ...

Today man in his actions is possessed by the irrational imagination of the passions, deceived by concupiscence, or pre-occupied either by the contrivances of science because of his needs, or by the desire to learn the principles of nature according to its laws. None of these compulsions existed for man originally, since he was above everything. For thus man must ...

John Meyendorff's Christ in Eastern Christian Thought ...truly God and truly man, the same consisting of a reasonable soul and body...born from the Virgin Mary, the Theotokos, as touching the manhood, one and the same Chrirst, son, Lord, Only begotten, to be acknowledged in two natures, without confusion, without change, without division, without separation; the distinction of the natures being ...