Relating to History
In lieu of the enormous and devastating earthquake in Haiti, Evangelical Pat Robertson stated that the earthquake was a result of the Haitians making a pact with the Devil that they might be delivered from French occupation.Of course the French Colonialists were doing God's will expanding White European imperialism across the world as the waters cover the earth. If ...
Saint Gregory of Nazianzus (329 - January 25, 389), also known as Saint Gregory the Theologian or Saint Gregory Nazianzen, was a 4th-century Archbishop of Constantinople. He is widely considered the most accomplished rhetorical stylist of the patristic age. As a classically trained speaker and philosopher he infused Hellenism into the early church, establishing the paradigm of Byzantine theologians and ...
9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. 11 Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in ...
Chapters in Church History, ...Puritan intolerance would have imposed a religious system as unpalatable to the mass of the people as Anglicanism was to the few.1... it called forth the famous defense of the Church of England against Geneva, The Laws of Ecclesiastical polity by Richard Hooker, the most notable Anglican scholar of the sixteenth century. 2The evangelical concern [imparted ...
Suffering and Grief
pain (27x)
death (18x)
dead (4x)
murder (2x)
hell (1x)
non sequitorsJustinian's Flea, irreducibly complex 9Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead. (2 Corinthians 1:9, ...
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Letters of friendship (cf. 2 Cor 1:16; 5:3; Phil 1:7–8)
Family letters
Letters of praise and blame (1 Cor 11; Rev 2–3)
Exhortatory or paraenetic letters (1 Thess 1-5; the Pastorals)
Letters of mediation or recommendation (Phil 2:19-30, Philemon)
Juridical or forensic letters (1 Cor 9:3-12; 2 Cor 1:8-2:13)
Private or documentary letters
Official letters
Literary ...
There is an issue in the text here that seems to be glossed over in many translations. Deuteronomy 4:32-40 specifically (and larger parts of the OT generally) are making polemic against social and theological norms that are aberrant. This seems evident in the Hebrew. In Deuteronomy 4:32 most translations capitalize the word God, ...
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. Snapshot of OrigenOrigen's [c.a. 182 - 251 CE] personality and ideas have always been the source of passionate controversies. Condemned in his lifetime by his bishop, supported by numerous disciples, he was attacked again in the fourth century by St. Epiphanius and condemned in 400 by a council presided over by Theophilus of ...
John Meyendorff's Christ in Eastern Christian Thought.
Cosmology: Creation is co-eternal with God.Â
Anthropology: Like Plato, Origen believed in the pre-existence of souls.
Christology: Christ is not the λÏ?γοÏ? (logos). Rather Christ is a soul that inhabited a human body (Platonic influence). This is similar to the "assumed man" of Nestorius that did not distinguish between eternal generation of the Son and ...
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 ...
Gospel of Judas Part 1
Gospel of Judas Part 2
NPR Interview on the Gospel of Judas
Ben's Discussion of his participation in the NPR ...
1Jn 3:8?? ????? ??? ???????? ?? ??? ???????? ?????, ??? ??? ????? ? ???????? ?????????. ??? ????? ????????? ? ???? ??? ????, ??? ???? ?? ???? ??? ????????.Those who practice sin are from the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. Into this [mess of a context] the Son of God was made manifest in order ...
Sources on Suffering and Evil
Buttrick, George Arthur. God, Pain and Evil. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1966.
Calvin, John. Commentaries on the First Epistle of Peter. Vol. 22 of Calvin's Commentaries; Repr., Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1999.
Carson, D. A. How Long O Lord? Grand Rapids: Inter-Varsity, 1990.
Clowney, Edmund. The Message of 1 Peter: The Way of the Cross. Leicester: Inter-Varsity, 1988.
Kreeft, Peter. Making ...
