Posted in Aquinas, Christology, Doctrine of God, Pneumatology, atonement, redemption, tagged plato, Spirit, creation, pentecost on May 5, 2008 | No Comments »
This does not mean that all esse commune (created being) is redeemed by virtue of the incarnation or his one act on the cross. Of course there is an eschatological element in which all of creation has the promise of redemption now through Christ’s realization of that promise. However, those who espouse a universalist atonement based [...]
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*The following is the conclusion to a review I did of Gustaf Aulen’s Christus Victor. Therefore it is lacking a bit in context, but still important for anyone who is privy to the issues.*
Because Jesus was God and man one cannot argue that the Atonement involved a total God-to-man movement or a total man-to-God movement; one [...]
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Because as God is the Author of our justification, so man is a debtor to pay Him devotion. (Leo the Great, 16th Sermon on the Passion).
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Gerald O’Collins and many other modern scholars hate the idea of Christ’s death as Penal Substitution. O’Collins states,
“… the way Aquinas adjusted Anselm’s theory of satisfaction helped open the door to a sad version of redemption: Christ as a penal substitute who was personally burdened with the sins of humanity, judged, condemned, and deservedly [...]
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Martin Luther replies to the claims of the ’sophists’ who say “But it is highly absurd and insulting to call the Son of God a sinner and a curse [in reference to Gal. 3:13]!” Luther says,
“If you want to deny that He is a sinner and a curse, then deny also that He suffered, was [...]
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David Bentley Hart argues for continuity between the Patristic understanding of Christ’s atonement and that of Anselm.
Indeed, in Cur Deus Homo the matter of guilt is somewhat recursed: it is guilt that is set aside, made of no account by Christ’s grace, so that the power of death should be overcome without violence to [...]
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What do people mean by this?
Earn: This could mean either to work hard to receive a reward from someone or to work hard to receive your wages. Paul says in Romans 4:4, “Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due.” Jesus did not work for [...]
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It is important to ask if sin is an ontological reality rather than an exclusive legal reality. To ask this is also to ask if man’s relationship to God is effected by the nature of man’s reflecting God’s own image. Aquinas’ distinction in two ways is helpful:
On the part of Christ he [Paul] writes of [...]
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According to Gordon Fee Paul’s language of redemption, propitiation, reconciliation, etc. is metaphorical because, “for Paul salvation is an especially theological reality, in the sense that it is both a reflection of God’s character and the result of God’s initiative.” [1] In as far as salvation is a reflection of God’s character [...]
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