Tag: Theology
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On the Incarnation, a 24 day Advent reading plan
The Christian year restarted on Sunday with the first Sunday of advent, beginning a period of expectant hope in the second coming of Christ. One of my resolutions this Advent is to contemplate more the incarnation through the book On the Incarnation by Athanasius (298-373), one of the most important books in church history. The…
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Heaven is not the goal of Christian salvation
Heaven, as a place apart from the earth, is not the goal of the Christian life, and to present this heaven as a sort of goal for the Christian life is a disservice to the gospel itself. The Bible doesn’t say much about heaven, but one thing is for sure, heaven, or at least the…
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God Became Man so that We Might Be Made God
The Son of God was made man so that we might be made God Athanasius, On the Incarnation §54 When I first heard this astounding quote I was repulsed and revolted by the idea that man might become God. Christianity is, after all, not polytheistic. We are at our core monotheistic and the very idea…
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Scandalous Grace
Fritz Sauckel is a man who was convicted of crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg trial and died by hanging in 1946. He died because humanity condemned his actions in organizing what was essentially slave labour and for his role in the evils of Nazi Germany during the coruse of World War II. He was…
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Fairytales, Fiction, and Childlike Faith
Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it.” —Luke 18:17 Fiction is a powerful thing; it moves the soul and spirit by displaying the hopes and fears of humanity in a way that we can imagine in our mind and hope for in…
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Faith Comes by Hearing
“Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” What does this mean, you might ask. It means that Christian faith, a firm belief in something not absolutely provable, originates by divine revelation. It is something revealed, something given by God — not as something derived from logic and reason, but as the…
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Post 2D, Christ today and tomorrow
Where is Jesus now? The Nicene Creed tells us that Jesus, after rising from the dead Ascended into heaven, And sits at the right hand of the Father. And he shall come again with glory to judge both the quick and the dead: Whose kingdom shall have no end. These statements show the core doctrines…
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2c Missing the Mark of God
Christianity is not a crutch for weak people, no it is far more than that. While some Christians might object to this, the truth is far more than that. Christianity isn’t a crutch for weak people because it asserts that people are dead because they have chosen to rebel against a just and omnipotent God…
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2b Christ’s Humanity, the hypostatic union
Perhaps the most overlooked central doctrine of the Christian faith is the humanity of Christ. Indeed, far too often it is forgotten as the fight of this day is to convince the culture that Jesus was more than some moral teacher and is, in fact, God. But he is human! And it is only because…
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1C What is Humanity?
What does it mean to be human? This is the question at the core of the Christian treatment of all people and, hopefully, the core of interpersonal ethics for Christians that attempt to remain true to their beliefs. Indeed it is this vision of what it means to be human that characterizes the importance of…
Defined Faith 