#Christological Theology

[blackswaneuroparedux]

There was a quotation from Simone de Beauvoir that I read in the paper only the other day… You may agree with those words or not, but those are the key spring of The Lord of the Rings.

J. R. R. Tolkien, 1968

Tolkien is talking about Original Sin in which death ("the wages of sin is death" as Paul would put it in the gospels) was never part of the original design of God before the Fall. De Beauvoir unwittingly makes the point for Tolkien. Had she known she might have choked on her coffee in Café de Flore.

[faithlovehope]

I don’t know how old this news is, but I saw on Thanksgiving an article detailing the phrase “Jesus is God” graffitied in an Israeli prison cell. In 232 Anno Domine. Nearly an entire century before the Council of Nicaea codified that phrase as the dominant school of Christological thought.

It is known.

[marcella-delaney]

What [Jesus’] life meant, what his spirit was, what his disciples did, this ‘yes’ to God’s will lived, and lives today, and this life appears in the cross. Redemption without the cross is not the redemption in which we become one with love.

Dorothee Soelle, Thinking about God: An Introduction to Theology, pg. 132

[offcampusstillnerdy]

Excellent new resource with a ton of careful research behind it. Amazing to see how in UK some evangelical churches are confronting and undoing histories of prejudice.

[buggie-hagen]

The current trend toward Christologies of identification are no improvement. We look, supposedly, for a Jesus who identifies with us, or with whom we can identify. That backfires, for example, when feminists find it impossible to identify with a male Jesus and start casting about for female divinities. But that is symptomatic of the difficulty with all Christologies of identification. We forget or ignore the fact that Jesus was one with whom no one identified in the end. ~Gerhard O. Forde, Theology is for Proclamation, 72.

[plong42]

Robert M. Bowman Jr. and J. Ed Komoszewski, The Incarnate Christ and His Critics: A Biblical Defense

Robert M. Bowman Jr. and J. Ed Komoszewski, The Incarnate Christ and His Critics: A Biblical Defense @KregelAcademic -

Bowman Jr., Robert M. and J. Ed Komoszewski. The Incarnate Christ and His Critics: A Biblical Defense. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Kregel Ministry, 2024. 853 pp. Hb. $57.99  Link to Kregel Academic   Bowman and Komoszewski have previously collaborated on Putting Jesus in His Place (Kregel, 2007). That volume was substantial, yet it is less than half the size of The Incarnate Christ and his Critics. The…

[eli-kittim]

What if the Crucifixion of Christ is a Future Event?

Read the PDF of my article, published in the Journal of Higher Criticism, vol. 13, no. 3 (2018).

[quarter]

The first edition of Kristus och Judas bears the following categorical epigraph, whose meaning, some years later, Nils Runeberg himself would monstrously dilate: Not one thing, but everything tradition attributes to Judas Iscariot is false. (De Quincey, 1857.) [...] He procceeds to offer a metaphysical explanation. Skillfully, he begins by pointing out how superfluous was the act of Judas. He observes that in order to identify a master who daily preached in the synagogue and who performed miracles before gatherings of thousands, the treachery of an apostle was not necessary. This, nevertheless, occurred. To suppose an error in the Scripture is intolerable; no less intolerable is it to admit that there was a single haphazard act in the most precious drama in the history of the world.

Ficciones, Part II: Artifices — Three Versions of Judas (1956) by Jorge Luiz Borges

[revdavidbsmith]

No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

[bethetiesthatbind]

“It may be tempting to make the flesh vanish. But rejection of carnality is the other side of the system that projects it onto others. Bodies are always susceptible to the exercise of power. However, the susceptibility to being shaped by the world is also the basis of all life and all knowledge. Flesh is a constitutive relation to the world – a condition for corporeal survival and flourishing as well as the source of its vulnerability. Rather that abandon flesh to live in the body, we need to reevaluate the rejected traits of carnality – its links to the material elements, its frailty and changeability. And I find in the carnal strand of Christian imaginaries resources for this project. They offer a crucial insight: unless I can embrace my own flesh, and its beginnings in the flesh of another, I cannot love other fleshly beings – nor can I understand the incarnation. What is at stake for them is nothing less than the possibility of love. In Christian texts, God is the initiator and model for such an embrace of flesh. Infusing earth with love, God creates. Becoming flesh, in birth and suffering, God re-creates. Christians are called to remember these stories, to see themselves in the transformations that they depict, to imitate God and be born again ... (T)he incarnation brings to mind and may help us reevaluate carnal/earthy bonds as grounds for a commitment to a shared life. It may remind us that the most significant events, the most loving, the most life giving, require consenting to being flesh.”

Mayra Rivera, Poetics of the Flesh

[marcella-delaney]

The more we love God, the threatened, endangered, crucified God, the nearer we are to him, the more endangered we are ourselves. The message of Jesus is that there more you grow in love, the more vulnerable you make yourself.

Dorothee Soelle, Thinking about God: An Introduction to Theology, pg. 134

[kingoftheu]

Some theologians might disagree. The concept of Virginitas in partu holds that Mary remained a virgin before, during, and after the birth of Jesus. Given the emphasis on placed by the ancients on physical proof of virginity this requires "physical miracle" that would likely qualify for the Unconventional Birth Clause.

OTOH many Christian scholars do not agree with Virginitas in partu, and would agree that he was a man of woman born. I am not a theologian (thank god) but this definitely depends on the denomination.

(Although he was also God Incarnate, begotten but not made and possessing two natures, one human one divine but look I'm not looking to relitigate old schisms)

can i submit someone who absolutely cannot kill macbeth?

jesus

No, Jesus Christ from Christian Mythology could NOT kill Macbeth.

Though his conception may have been esoteric, the delivery certainly wasn't, eliminating him for the Unconventional Birth Clause. One could argue that the whole reason that Jesus got popular in the first place was specifically because he was a man of woman born.

Thank you VERY much for your submission!

[thinkingonscripture]

The Suffering of Jesus Christ

When God the Son added perfect humanity to Himself, this enabled Him to experience suffering and death with, and on behalf of, humanity. The suffering of Christ may be viewed in at least two ways: 1) His suffering during His time on earth prior to the cross, and 2) the suffering of the cross. As the God-Man, Jesus was perfectly holy in all His thoughts, words, and actions. Such perfect holiness…

[tarragonblack123581321345589]

THEOLOGY

THEOLOGY is the study of the nature of God and religious belief.

AREAS OF THEOLOGY

■Paterology

The study of GOD, the father, is the focus of this area.

The etiology of the word "PATEROLOGY" is Greek:

□πατήρ (patḗr, father)

□λογος (logos, study)

■Bibliology

The study of the theological doctrine of the Bible is examined in this area.

The etiology of the word "BIBLIOLOGY" is Greek:

□βίβλος (biblos, book)

□λογος (logos, study)

■Christology

The study of the person, nature, and role of Christ is revealed in this area.

The etiology of the word "CHRISTOLOGY" is HEBREW:

□χριστός (chrīstós, "anointed one") □מָשִׁיחַ (Mašíaḥ, messiah); this word will originally mean someone who is anointed.

□λογος (logos, study)

■Anthropology

The study of the meaning of the human story as it is lived out before, with, and by God.

□λογος (logos, study)

■Soteriology

The study of salvation is considered and reviewed through our perspective.

□λογος (logos, study)

■Pneumatology

The study of the Holy Spirit is witnessed and evaluated.

□λογος (logos, study)

■Angelology

The study of the theological doctrine of angels is examined.

□λογος (logos, study)

■Ecclesiology

The study of the nature and structure of the Christian Church is revealed.

□λογος (logos, study)

■Eschatology

The study of the death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind.

□λογος (logos, study)

[chicoinematt7]

How to Reconcile Mary as Mediator with 1 Timothy 2:5

Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on May 13,  2019. May 13th, 2017 marked the 100th anniversary of the Marian Apparitions at Fatima, Portugal. I participated in a 33-day Marian consecration that culminated on the Feast of Fatima.  Because of the honor Catholics bestow towards Mary, it is important to dispel common misunderstandings non-Catholics may have about the Blessed Mother…