A passage of astonishing power and beauty from one of Augustine’s Christmas sermons (191), preached perhaps in 411 or 412. Christ came to save sinners. Man’s Maker was made man, that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother’s breasts; that the Bread might be hungry, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the […]
Tag: Christology
Because, you know, it’s that time of year. But, of course, the topic is never out of season. There was a dilemma involved in the restoration of man from sin. Only man was obligated to pay what was owed to God, but man was unable to do it. The Son of God was willing to […]
I posted an excerpt from Augustine’s Sermon 184 a couple of days ago, and I now return to it again, because its conclusion is too good not to share. The Latin is especially beautiful (see the notes for just a few of its features), and its closing statement of desire (perficiat…filius), though brief, is profound. […]
Augustine, in Sermon 184, speaks of the difference between the “wise” and the wise, those who are wise with regard to “this world” (huius mundi) and those who are wise with regard to the one “by whom the world was made” (a quo factus est mundus). The difference is that the latter can assent to […]
Augustine on the Incarnation, and on Christ’s having the same what-ness as the Father but not the same who-ness. For hold this fast as a firm and settled truth, if you would continue Catholics, that God the Father begot God the Son without time, and made Him of a Virgin in time. The first nativity […]
It has been obvious for some time that the media “just doesn’t get religion.” Some writers are better than others, and every so often an actual expert in the field will be given a platform on a mainstream media outlet, but taken as a whole, things are still pretty bad. NPR continues this trend with its […]
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What is a Christ?
Reading some more interaction on the question of the historical Adam, I continue to see the “Christological” objection. This argument is not really an argument, in my opinion, but it goes something like this, “The Scriptures are fundamentally about Christ. Everything is meant to point to him. If you are so hung up on things […]
Modern evangelicalism has always had something of an identity problem. Wanting to be neither Fundamentalism nor Liberalism, it has often found itself unable to sit comfortably in the middle. More often than not, and sometimes with a bit of pressure from either side, it ends up swinging back and forth between the poles, often unable […]
Brad Littlejohn has been consistently working in Richard Hooker studies for some while now. He has a soon-to-be published essay on Richard Hooker’s doctrine of the two kingdoms and its relation to modern and incorrect articulations of the doctrine today. We have critiqued these mistaken presentations elsewhere, and now Mr. Littlejohn has offered another critique of […]
This is a continuation of the paper which was begun here. It resumes the argument by investigating the Reformed Scholastics’ use of the expression and concept “compound person.”