THE HUMANITY OF CHRIST BY IMPLICATION We will introduce two terms that we have already brushed up against and which are quite familiar to seasoned Christians anyway—the Incarnation and the Virgin Birth of Jesus. The doctrine of the Incarnation... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
“For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell… For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily.” COLOSSIANS 1:19, 2:9 The Christian theologian, in articulating the faith, always has a positive and negative function. He is engaged... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
A13: Our first parents, being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from the estate wherein they were created, by sinning against God. This is the biblical answer to the question “What is wrong with the world?” or put another way, “What... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus. 2 TIMOTHY 2:5 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
It has been widely agreed upon that Jesus was born in 4 B. C., which may seem a little awkward given that B. C. still means “before Christ,” yet the oversight comes not from Scripture but from the best guess of a sixth century monk named Dionysius... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
What do we make of Rick Warren now that we have been told that we should make something different about Rick Warren? For me the answer is easy. I never “made” anything about him before John Piper’s recent interaction with him to begin with. So what... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
A ‘THIRD WAVE’ IN THE QUEST A. N. Wilson, who wrote biographies of C. S. Lewis and Leo Tolstoy, also wrote one on Jesus (1992), so that he interests us in that he doesn’t come from these schools with an axe to grind per se. And yet his preface... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
A HYPER-IMMANENT CHRISTOLOGY: MOTIVES AND CONSEQUENCES Another assumption of nineteenth century liberalism has penetrated the Christology of the conservative church. That is an inflation of the sense of which Jesus wrestled with his vocation. The... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
THE SECOND QUEST FOR A HISTORICAL JESUS Early twentieth century theology has backed itself into a strange corner. On the one hand the Jesus of history was imperceptible yet irrelevant—a consequence of two general moods: historical skepticism and... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
In 1834 David Friedrich Strauss published Das Leben Jesu in the German, or, the Life of Jesus when it was translated into the English twelve years later, or, as the Earl of Shaftsbury called it upon its arrival, “the most pestilential book ever... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
