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  • Another Theology Paper (on Atonement Models)

    – – *This is another paper I submitted for my Analytic Theology class. I am loosely in agreement with it as a whole, though at times I align with the position I quote Anatolios as taking: that this conversation is best not having. Still, perhaps it does serve some value as a reflection on Christ…

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  • A Paper on Nestorian Christology

    – – *This is a paper I recently submitted for an Analytic Theology class I am currently taking, dealing with the “two-minds view” of the incarnation propounded by the philosophers Thomas Morris and Richard Swinburne. I hope you enjoy!* A Double-Minded Christ? An Assessment of the “Two-Minds” View of the Hypostatic Union             The relation of…

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  • Karl Barth’s Prayer for the Year’s End

    – – “O Lord, our God! Our years come and go. And we ourselves live and die. But Thou art and remainest the same. Thy dominion and Thy faithfulness, Thy righteousness and Thy mercy, have no beginning and no end. And thus Thou art the origin and the goal even of our lives, Thou art…

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  • The Transfiguration of Jesus

    The transfiguration is one of those odd episodes in the Gospels which seem disjointed as far as its place in the flow of the narratives go. Immediately before each of the Transfiguration accounts – found only in the Synoptics – Jesus proclaims that he will die, and that those who must follow after Him must…

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  • Karl Barth on “Blessed are the Pure in Heart”

    Karl Barth was the son of a pastor. As such, from a very young age he was intimately involved in the life of the church. When he came of age, he decided he wanted to study theology academically, and perhaps then to go into the pastorate like his father. Eventually, this is what he did.…

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  • Humanae Vitae as (an) Outcome of Trinitarian Theology

    – – The Encyclical Humanae Vitae is the name of the papal encyclical written by Pope Paul VI in 1968 which addresses issues of the family and birth control. It was written before large amounts of the world decided to make artificial birth control a legalized medical reality, and the heart behind the letter was…

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  • REVIEW: Byzantine Style and Civilization by Steven Runciman

    – – Runciman, Steve. Byzantine Style and Civilization. London, UK: Penguin Books, 1990. Byzantine Style and Civilization by the late Steve Runciman is hailed as a classic introduction to the field of Byzantine studies. It is a short, fascinating read, which includes in summarized form the various political, theological, and above all artistic flavors of…

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  • Theology After Wittgenstein by Fergus Kerr

    “What if despising signs for their inert and inorganic materiality is to collude, however unwittingly, in centuries of discrimination against the mundane realities of how human beings live in community with one another?”

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  • Embodiment, Presence, Modernity: A Selection from Robert Jenson’s “Visible Words”

    – – I don’t think I have read a more prophetic, life-giving, convicting, or true set of sentences in the past year than these written by Robert Jenson in 1978: “Personal life occurs only in community. Just so, it can fail, according to either of its aspects, spirit or body.             Were I a fundamentally self-contained…

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  • Robert Jenson and the Logos Asarkos

    – – Bruce McCormack’s landmark study on Christology, The Humility of the Eternal Son, leans heavily on the work of Robert Jenson to disprove the tradition’s positing of a bifurcated “Christological Subject.” He claims that this idea argues that there are two identities in God the Son: the “Eternal Son,” conceived as an identity of…

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