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Clear searchEustathius of Antioch, the human soul of Christ and the pictures created by our words
Did the Incarnation Limit God? Eustathius of Antioch, the human soul of Christ and the pictures created by our words Why this is useful to know: The language we use about Jesus creates a picture in…
Read article →The incarnation, the limits of created perspective and the love philosophy could not imagine
Christ in the Temple of the Philosophers The Incarnation, the Limits of Created Perspective, and the Love Philosophy Could Not Imagine “For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.” — Colossians 2:9 A conversation with my…
Read article →The glory philosophy could not contain
…tain In the previous article, Christ in the Temple of the Philosophers, I argued that the Incarnation does not become absurd merely because it exceeds the limits of our created experience. The God who made the universe is not imprisoned by it. He is not merely outside our box; He…
Read article →Why the Son assumed a complete human nature, not merely a body
…of what it means to be human. The previous article considered the danger of imagining the incarnation as though a divine hand entered a human glove. This article asks the positive question that follows: did the Son assume only a human body, or did Jesus also possess a genuinely h…
Read article →Tal Brooke · Christian investigation · 1979
…authenticating. Brooke places popular claims about death, consciousness, spirit guides, reincarnation, and the afterlife alongside the Christian revelation and asks what these experiences actually prove. It is useful apologetic and discernment reading for a subject on which perso…
View recommendation →Irenaeus of Lyons · Early Christian theology and polemic · c. 180–190
…and his use of Scripture as carefully as those of any other teacher. Scripture Gnosticism Incarnation Resurrection Premillennialism Kingdom of God Apostolic faith
View recommendation →R. V. Sellers · Theological biography and history of doctrine · 1928
…t in finished form. Eustathius of Antioch Council of Nicaea Christology Arian controversy Incarnation Divinity of Christ Church and empire
View recommendation →Why the distinction matters when we speak about Jesus
…as His human spirit. The Son did not cease to exist, nor did the union established in the incarnation collapse. The death was therefore genuinely human and personally divine: the Son of God died for us according to the humanity He had made His own. Why the Early Church Struggled…
Read article →Born, begotten and firstborn in the eternal identity and saving work of the Son
…sent to Israel (Acts 13:23–24), and the wider New Testament calls Him the Son before His incarnation, death and resurrection (John 3:16–17; Galatians 4:4). The force is public appointment and vindication. By resurrection, Jesus was “declared to be the Son of God with power” (Rom…
Read article →Isaiah, John, and the Divine Identity of Jesus Christ
…the Father’s unique Son. “Became flesh” does not say “began to exist”. The subject of the incarnation is the Word who already was. The new reality is His human life among us. This also prevents the argument becoming a discussion of an abstract divine attribute with no personal id…
Read article →Near-death experiences, neuroscience, and the authority of Christ
…ke examined the beliefs being carried back from the brink: claims about God, judgement, reincarnation, universal salvation, spirit guides and the meaning of death. That remains the right question. A testimony may be moving without being self-interpreting. An experience may be sin…
Read article →How the Law reaches its goal and appointed end in Christ
…st down or descend into the deep to raise Him from the dead. God has already acted in the incarnation and resurrection. The saving word is near: "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, tho…
Read article →El, the Exodus, and the God Who Came from Sinai
…Christophany is understood as a temporary manifestation of the pre-incarnate Son; in the incarnation the Word permanently assumes a complete human nature (John 1:14). The article’s historical argument depends only upon divine manifestation, not upon settling the personal identit…
Read article →Origen, Arius and the line between Creator and creation
…use the word homoousios. Neither did they use later English expressions such as Trinity, incarnation or omniscience. But the absence of a later technical term does not imply the absence of the truth it summarises. Long before Nicaea, Scripture had already declared that: the Word…
Read article →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…ine is not Gnostic does not acquit evangelical culture. A confession may affirm creation, incarnation, resurrection, and church while the operative spirituality quietly tells another story. The analogy becomes strongest when several of the following tendencies converge. Private i…
Read article →The divine identity of Jesus across the Gospels
…essed glory with the Father and lived as the object of the Father's love. This is why the incarnation matters. Christianity does not deny the evidence of Jesus' humanity. He is born, grows, hungers, sleeps, prays, suffers and dies. Surah 5:75 points to Jesus and Mary eating food…
Read article →An unrequited love for the historic Church
…ve the ancient confession of the Triune God. I love the Fathers when they defend the true incarnation of Christ against those who turned Him into an apparition or a spiritual myth. I love their insistence that the God of the gospel is the Creator of heaven and earth, that the bod…
Read article →Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
…le within every form of Judaism. His identity divides. The cross is a stumblingblock, the incarnation is an immense claim, and the apostolic teaching about law and Gentile inclusion cannot simply be folded into later rabbinic tradition. Yet each disputed claim arises within a Jew…
Read article →What mercy, holiness and the cross reveal about God
…ce of a reluctant creature to protect an untouched deity. It is divine self-giving in the incarnation and cross. Love does not cease to be holy A common objection now appears from the opposite direction. If God loves enemies before they repent, does holiness matter? Does uncondit…
Read article →Constantine, Arius, the Trinity, the biblical canon—and the myths that refuse to die
…ity. Paganism defeated biblical Christianity. The emperor chose the books of the Bible. Reincarnation was removed. Sunday worship was imposed. The bishops settled everything by imperial command—and perhaps discussed rosary beads or beards while they were there. These stories diff…
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