Wolfhart Pannenberg, in his book Metaphysics and the Idea of God, concludes that Jesus is the solution to the over-abstraction of the concept of God by modern philosophy. Jesus is concrete. He is real and actually existed in history as the Principium of all creation. Pannenberg did not say anything new by employing this argument [...]
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When Thomas Aquinas wrote his commentary on Peter Lombard’s Sentences he placed God at the center and everything else in relation to Him, emanating out in creation and returning in final glorification. Jean-Pierre Torrell explains the organizing ratio of this plan:
If we do not remember the biblical affirmation of God as the Alpha and Omega of all [...]
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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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A common speculation regarding the Lord’s Supper is that there is no special partaking of Christ for the believing subject in the event of eating and drinking the elements. If the sacrament is a means of grace (WCF 27) and grace only comes through union with Christ then what more should one expect from the [...]
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‘They drank,’ he [Paul] said, ‘of the spiritual Rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ.” Thus the bread, thus the drink. The rock was Christ in sign; the real Christ is in the Word and in flesh …. But this is what belongs to the virtue of the sacrament, not to the visible [...]
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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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