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Answering the Anchorites

This project has been a long time in coming.  Anchoretic apologists have been initially successful in picking off Reformed students by using a series of Trinitarian and Christological arguments.  In...

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The question I never asked concerning icons

When I looked at Eastern Orthodoxy there were a number of questions on the tip of my tongue that I never asked.  Most likely I couldn’t formulate them and never bothered to think it through.  One of...

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A difficulty with ancient Christologies

One of the initial charms of reading guys like Maximus the Confessor, Cyril, and others is that they offered a fairly neat way of tying in human nature, Christology, and soteriology.  It runs something...

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Theologia Unionis as Epistemological Model

The Christological problem follows the [epistemological issue]:  if the human nature of Jesus, as finite, is in capable in itself of comprehending the infinite knowledge of the theologia...

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Turretin on hypostatic union

These are more of summary notes of certain sections of Turretin, vol. 2. a composite union?  This language is used both by the ancient fathers (rather unsoundly) and more recently by Reformed fathers....

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Notes on Deere’s Surprised by Voice

This is not a simple endorsement of Jack Deere’s book.  I think it is problematic in a lot of ways.  It exhibits a woeful lack discernment and much of the exegesis is too simplistic.  Still, there was...

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On the nature assumed

One of the tricky questions in Christology is to what extent Jesus assumed our human nature.  The problem arises when we ask, “Did Christ assume the sinful part of our nature?”  If we say yes, then it...

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Lord and Servant

This is Mike Horton’s second installment in his Covenant series.  He reframes Christology around “covenant” and is stunningly successful.  His genius is in using the covenant to contrast two...

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Some basics on Ascension

A post on the liturgical day here. The moderator begins on a surprising covenantal note.    I am surprised–indeed, delighted–because Covenantalism is at war with his larger ontology of being. He...

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Christ in Eastern Christian Thought (review notes), part 1

Witnesses to Christ:  “They [apostles] do not even claim the same kind of infallibility that rationalists critique them for” (10).  I don’t want to get into the inerrancy debate right now, but if JM is...

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