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– – Maximus the Confessor is known as the greatest seventh-century defender of a logically-consistent Chalcedonianism. As the “Confessor” part of his title indicates, Maximus held to the Apostolic Faith at a time when the entire empire opposed it (even if the empire did so unknowingly, which my reading of the history would tend to…
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– – I am much too late to the game with Bruce McCormack’s study on Christology, The Humility of the Eternal Son. I am thankful to be done with it finally so that I can share a few quotes from the book and comment on the overall experience. The quotes I will be pulling from…
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“One Substance, Three Persons.” Such is the mantra used virtually across the board in many Western churches when tasked with describing the ontological makeup of God. Purportedly, the Christian God is Trinity: He is one God made up of Father, Son, and Spirit. How this is the case is usually chalked up to “mystery” and…
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– – A groaning cry doth issue forthFrom a young, dumb thinker’s mind hole,Sputtering from a butter’s worthOf a troll’s stinky green grass knoll. Now this troll’s tarts are quite the treat,Do not think me one to quarrel,I myself am happy to bleatAnd give the troll dogmatic laur’ls. The boy, though, he needs to be…
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– – On my old Wix blog, I would post poems I had written every once in a while. Well, my journal has seen an uptick in the amount of poems written in it for the last few weeks so I felt I would share one here. —- Language, words, are a railroaded track of…
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– – The late John Webster was a shining example of a well-informed, biblical, and unashamedly Protestant theologian whose integration of Karl Barth’s theological emphases with patristic and Reformational insights made him one of the few theologians (after Torrance) whose writings are actually worth reading. I have only read one other book by Webster, which…
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– – As I’ve written in one of my most recent blog posts, I recently began the long journey towards completing Barth’s Church Dogmatics. I finished reading the first volume, 1/I, a few months ago. Since then, I have tried to supplement my reading with various smaller theological, sociological, and creative works (like John Webster’s…
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– In evangelical-theological literature right now, the idea that theologians are “church grammarians” is a hot one. The theologian, this literature says, is one who actively seeks to test, challenge, and refine the Christian church’s language about God so as to bring it in conformity with God’s being as revealed in Jesus Christ. Especially among…
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– My wife and I recently began our move over to the Anglican Communion from the low-church Baptist world. This move was informed by numerous changes in conviction on a myriad of faith matters. The two primary channels through which I, personally, foresaw this move had to do with what I was reading in the…
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– The evangelical world is in the midst of a largely positive, in my opinion, “retrieval” movement. Evangelical theologians, in other words, are making wholesale returns – or, some would argue, discoveries – of the theology of the historic Church catholic. Medieval and Patristic theology-related dissertations and Medieval and Patristic literature written by evangelicals is…
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– – A groaning cry doth issue forthFrom a young, dumb thinker’s mind hole,Sputtering from a butter’s worthOf a troll’s stinky green grass knoll. Now this troll’s tarts are quite the treat,Do not think me one to quarrel,I myself am happy to bleatAnd give the troll dogmatic laur’ls. The boy, though, he needs to be…
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