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Retractare: Where I’m still appreciative of EOdox
While the early theme of this blog is showing where I cannot epistemologically commit to Eastern Orthodox communion, by no means do I intend to suggest they are wrong or that the past four years of my...
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Railing against theonomy when you should be teaching Christology
It happened like this. The class was average so far. It wasn’t great but I figured I would still get the basics of Christology, or at least enough to pass an exam. We got to the part about...
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Person-nature distinction briefly explained
On one hand it is the heart of Trinitarian reasoning. Persons are the “who” in a sentence that do the “what.” Natures are the “this-ness” of a perseon. Bottom-line: Persons do stuff, not...
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A Messy Christology
This is actually a work-in-progress… 1. Take the cappadocian argument against Eunomius: Eunomius posited that there existed an intermediate energy between Father AND Son AND Holy Spirit. They...
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Athanasius and the extra-calvinisticum
The guys at CalvinistInternational have done a decent job with the sources. The Extra-Calvinisticum is the doctrine that Lutherans charged followers of Calvin for holding. For the record, I still side...
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Announcing the Eschatological Christ
The most exciting part of my theological development (and in somewhat Hegelian fashion, predating an immediate downfall) was my discovery of New Testament eschatology seen in the Redemptive-Historical...
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The problem of Christology-first apologetics
This was something I was guilty of a few years ago. On one hand, who wouldn’t disagree with the proposition that we should begin all of our theology with Christology first? That we should let...
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Problems with hyper-realist theology
I hold to philosophical realism. There is a problem, though, when some Anchorites use realism as a foil against the Reformed faith. The argument goes something like this: The Reformed faith is...
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Basil of Caesarea: A Review
Andrew Radde-Galwitz demonstrated his brilliance with his book on divine simplicity.. Thus our initial pleasure at seeing a new volume by him, and one at an accessible price. That said, I am not sure...
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Christology and the Instrumentalization Thesis
Chalcedon followed St Cyril in saying that the acting subject was the divine Logos, the Logos asarkos. This was a clear rejection of Nestorius’ two-sons Christology and an admitted throwback to...
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Examining a High Church High Christology Claim
Gottesdienst set forth an argument that a High Christology correlates with a High Liturgy. More importantly, this article nicely summarizes why a lot of Protestants go to the High Liturgical...
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Skip your Christology class…this is what you need
Rod Rosenbladt is lecturing (or has lectured through) Martin Chemnitz’ On the Two Natures of Christ. Of course, I have some substantial reservations about Lutheran Christology and their view of the...
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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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