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Clear searchR. V. Sellers · Theological biography and history of doctrine · 1928
…n and interpretation are difficult. Sellers sometimes presents Antiochene and Alexandrian Christology as more sharply defined schools than newer scholarship permits, and his judgment about which fragments are authentic can depend upon the theology he expects to find. The book is…
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 →Eustathius of Antioch, the human soul of Christ and the pictures created by our words
…e person dwelling within a second human subject? This is sometimes called “underdeveloped Christology.” The expression can be useful, provided it does not mean that the early Christians simply knew less Bible or believed in an unfinished Christ. The biblical realities were alread…
Read article →Born, begotten and firstborn in the eternal identity and saving work of the Son
…he Son who became flesh—not the creature who became divine The direction of New Testament Christology is consistently downward before it is upward. The Word was God, then was made flesh (John 1:1, 14). The Son existed in the form of God, then took upon Him the form of a servant (…
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 →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 →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 →Isaiah, John, and the Divine Identity of Jesus Christ
…of diminished divinity.[^4] We should not claim that a grammatical rule alone settles all Christology. The following verses are indispensable. The positive assertion and the negative exclusion “All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.” —…
Read article →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…einterpretation of apostolic writings, claims to advanced tradition, docetic pressures on Christology, asceticism, elaborate initiation, and a distinction between an enlightened elite and ordinary Christians. These are important, but no one of them is a sufficient definition. Asc…
Read article →The divine identity of Jesus across the Gospels
…kham, Jesus and the God of Israel: God Crucified and Other Studies on the New Testament's Christology of Divine Identity. Larry W. Hurtado, Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity. R. T. France, The Gospel of Mark, on Mark's scriptural prologue, the sea cros…
Read article →An unrequited love for the historic Church
…fellowship. The ordinary Christian who cannot explain every implication of justification, Christology or eschatology is not therefore a lower order of believer. He possesses the same Christ and confesses the same saving truth. Irenaeus’s rule of faith is broad enough to unite Chr…
Read article →Which Gospel does the Qur'an affirm?
…rmenia, Ethiopia and regions connected with Arabia. Their churches disagreed sharply over Christology, councils, episcopal authority and imperial power. They used different liturgical languages. Some lived beyond Byzantine control. Yet the Gospel books identifiable among these di…
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