This is the eleventh post in a twelve-part series on the current Christological confusion taking root in China’s emerging Reformed community (see parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 and 10). Seventh Statement: The “Unknown Humanity of God in Christ” “Until recent times,” Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen observes,…
This is the ninth post in a twelve-part series on the current Christological confusion taking root in China’s emerging Reformed community (see parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8) Fifth Statement: Merely Functional Likeness Ironically, holding a univocal view of God’s image (see part…
This is the third part of a multipart series of posts on the subject of the Transfiguration and its significance for Christian theology and biblical reflection. Within the first couple of posts I explored the literary presentation of the event…
This is the eighth post in a twelve-part series on the current Christological confusion taking root in China’s emerging Reformed community (see part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7) Fourth Statement: The Recast Image of God Recast by the concept of Christ’s eternal humanness…
Connecting Christ and the Proverbs isn’t so easy. How do we read the book of Proverbs as Christians in a way that would distinguish us from how a Jew might read the same book? Also, why then was the book…
This is the seventh post in a twelve-part series on the current Christological confusion taking root in China’s emerging Reformed community (see part 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 and 6). Third Statement: Incarnation as the Assumption of a Body (Alone?) Despite his apparent anthropological dualism, our brother…
This is the sixth post in a twelve-part series on the current Christological confusion taking root in China’s emerging Reformed community (see part 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5). Second Statement: Platonic Dualism As noted at the end of the previous post (see part…
I begin every semester in my Church and Sacraments course with the following quotation from Martin Luther, which Karl Barth used “In Place of a Foreword” to introduce Church Dogmatics, volume 1.2. The quotation says so much about the relationship…
This post is the second in a twelve-part series on the current Christological confusion taking root in China’s emerging Reformed Community (see part 1 here). Context & Cause of the Current Confusion In one of the most fascinating developments in…
iv. This office the Lord Jesus did most willingly undertake; which that He might discharge, He was made under the law, and did perfectly fulfill it; endured most grievous torments immediately in His soul, and most painful sufferings in His…
