Isaiah, John, and the Divine Identity of Jesus Christ
Isaiah declares that YHWH alone creates, saves and receives the allegiance of every knee. Follow the cumulative biblical case for the divine identity of Jesus, with serious engagement with the strongest objections.
Read article →The incarnation, the limits of created perspective and the love philosophy could not imagine
Why the incarnation overturns human ideas of divine greatness, matter, emotion and suffering—and why John 3:16 answers the riddle of God’s descent.
Read article →Why the Son assumed a complete human nature, not merely a body
Why Christ’s human mind, affections and will matter to the incarnation, His obedience and our redemption.
Read article →Eustathius of Antioch, the human soul of Christ and the pictures created by our words
Why the eternal Son was not confined within Christ’s body, why His humanity was more than a passive instrument, and why imprecise pictures of the incarnation still matter.
Read article →Origen, Arius and the line between Creator and creation
Why eternal existence alone does not prove deity—and why John places the uncreated Son decisively on the Creator’s side of the Creator–creature distinction.
Read article →R. V. Sellers · Theological biography and history of doctrine · 1928
A reconstruction of the life, conflicts, surviving writings, and Christology of Eustathius of Antioch, a prominent opponent of Arianism whose career illuminates both the Council of Nicaea and the unsettled theological and political struggles which followed it.
View recommendation →Why the distinction matters when we speak about Jesus
How Scripture teaches us to distinguish Christ’s complete divine and human natures without dividing the one eternal Son.
Read article →The glory philosophy could not contain
How Amelius recognised John’s language of the Word yet reversed its meaning—and why the risen Christ proves that the incarnation was not a fall into matter but a descent of divine love.
Read article →Born, begotten and firstborn in the eternal identity and saving work of the Son
A study of Psalm 2:7, Acts 13:33 and three Greek word-groups distinguishing Christ’s eternal Sonship from His resurrection, enthronement and supremacy as Firstborn.
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