OK, I wrote this back in June 5, 2003. It is arguably one that shouldn’t see the light of day. Since an off the cuff attempt at a joke spurred a serious comment, and I’ve promised to say more at some point, I thought I had better put this back in cyberspace.
I originally [...]
Selfless has its own wikipedia entry. It so deserves it!
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I used to think “systematic theology” mean that each “point” in the teaching was logically related to other points.
But I don’t think that image goes far enough. In many cases, the points of dogmatics are not like joints in a structure. They’re more like windows on a single object.
Theology and eschatology are distinct, except that [...]
Oh, speaking of high school, I can’t believe Google Maps has this. My house was third on the left up from the East-West road that went to the pier. It was right across from the back driveway that went around the big bachelor quarter’s to the restaraunt.
And here is where my Dad worked. [...]
Once I thought that Junior High social dynamics were a temporary stage of life. I’ve matured since then and have grown wise enough to know better.
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OK, if you are like me, even though you know reading one page every three days of a comic book is insufferable, you just can’t help yourself. But if you’re not like me, and can treat webcomics like real books and wait the amont it time it takes for a chapter to come out, [...]
“At the bottom of politics, one always finds theology.” I’ve seen this sentiment attributed to the anarchist-socialist Pierre Joseph Proudhon. I think it is a profound insight (though easily reversible), one that you should keep in mind when you read the Gospels.
And Jesus called them to him and said to them, “You know [...]
From John Armstrong:
Brooks challenges conventional wisdom about who really cares for the poor, showing that it is conservatives who give more to the needy. Each year, he notes, conservatives give 30% more to charity than liberals. And the more religious people are the more charitable they are likely to be. Believers are actually 57% more [...]
The writer begins by asking, ‘What is faith?’ He asserts that faith is the activity of the entire heart, the entire life, embracing the weighty matters of personal salvation, and the nitty-gritty details of daily living.
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If I said this fellow Presbyterian ministers would assure anyone who had the misfortune of stumbling onto their email lists [...]
Trying to track down what might be a Proudhon quotation, it suddenly occurred to me: maybe it is all Malthus’ fault. Marxism, I mean. Or modern revolutionary thought, including modern atheism.
Imagine the world as a cannibal chamber in which those with power deserve to destroy those without it. I could see that generating some rather [...]
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
(Blaise Pascal/ 1623-1662)
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Okay, Steve has been reading a book that was published a couple of years before I went to seminary and one that was widely read as Christology books go. His observations are well worth reading. Here are some quotations he posts:
When Martinius of Bremen unwittingly proposed Christ as foundation of election on the [...]
Not much to say about the last part. Garcia provides some pretty solid formulations. But the idea that these exclude someone like Rich Lusk is simply power play (one, I’m not convinced Garcia really wants to make). It has no basis in anything substantial.
Garcia want to safe guard that the righteous verdict [...]
OK, I just read through part 3. What has this to do with anything that Garcia has said? There is great stuff showing Calvin’s view of Union with Christ. Then there is stuff showing Osiander’s weird view of ubiquity and the communication of attributes. Has Garcia shown that anyone he is [...]
OK, I’m done through part two. Nothing else to report except Garcia tries again to tie Chalcedonian issues (God and man in one person with two natures without confusion, without change, without division, without separation) with the issue of union between persons (i.e. Adam and humanity, David and Israel, Christ and believers, husband and [...]
I think Garcia raises some good questions about Hays on pp. 223-225. However, he uses this to say that Hays and Wright must deal with pre-modern questions of “substance and nature.”
No. Substance and nature are questions raised about the union between the divine and the human in the man Jesus. They are [...]
While he agrees that the “incorporative motif is clearly prominent in Paul, ” he asks, naming N. T. Wright and his conclusions, “How might the relationship of the Messiah and those incorporated into him be expressed theologically, that is, in conversation with the language and thought forms of catholic Christology? What kind of union-incorporation [...]
On the top of p. 222 in the WTJ, Garcia says some really good things. But he seems to be forgetting the distinction between a theological qualm and an exegetical one (though I imagine he could say the same of those he is criticizing). The bottom line is, does logizomai mean “impute” or not? The [...]
So far, it looks like my earier comments (one, two) were dead on. The move to Christology is utterly arbitrary and unrelated to anything. Union with the first Adam and union with the second do no raise the sort of questions in Christology which Garcia wishes to treat as central.
Garcia writes of D. [...]
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For Osiander, the righteousness was not a legal status but a moral quality. This is again light years away from anything Lusk has taught. In fact, the Mississippi Valley Presbytery/Guy Waters Papal pronouncement is that FV is aberrant because it speaks of the righteousness we have in Christ as a shared [...]
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