Miscellaneous Trinitarian Reflections from Nicholas Lash

Quote11 November 201822 September 2019 llwilmoth

Christianity’s First Doctrine (logically, not historically) the doctrine of God’s Trinity is not some further teaching, additional to a teaching which would count as a ‘doctrine of God,’ but simply is the Christian doctrine of God, the Christian account of how the word ‘God’ is to be used. from Easter In Ordinary (1988), 267, n21; […]

Andrew Purves on Christ’s vicarious humanity

Quote4 November 201822 September 2019 llwilmoth

a failure to give appropriate attention to the vicarious humanity of Jesus means that everything, the whole of the Christian faith, life and ministry are now cast back on us to do. At this last moment, it turns out, we are dependent on our faith, our worship, our obedience and so on, rather than on Jesus’ response […]

The Difference the Ascension Makes

Quote28 October 201822 September 2019 llwilmoth

Two Takes Nicholas Lash Luke’s account of the ascension can only be understood if we resist the modern tendency to carve up the paschal mystery into a series of separate ‘events’. The death and glorification of Christ and the outpouring of the Spirit constitute one event, the salvation-event. … What practical difference would it make […]

An Interview with Andrew Purves

21 October 201822 September 2019 llwilmoth

This guy gets what’s up. I wish I’d come across him earlier. Here he discusses his work The Crucifixion of Ministry (IVP, 2007).

The Christology of Prayer

Quote14 October 201822 September 2019 llwilmoth

He is our mouth by which we speak to the Father; our eye by which we see the Father; our right hand by which we offer ourselves to the Father. Save by his intercession neither we nor any saints have any intercourse with God. Ambrose, On Isaac or the Soul, 8.75 It is one Savior of […]

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