A little blog from an upstart theologian that will do its best to exemplify Christ while sharing a thing or two along the way.
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Tuesday, June 03, 2003 Been awhile since I posted last...realize that now. Well shame on me, but its been nuts the last couple of weeks. I have begun my summer reading schedule, which differs from my normal reading schedule only in that it is comprised of independent readings for the most part with various slices of assigned work from my theology class. I have selected two books to start with: Augustine's Confessions and Calvin's Institutes of Christian Religion. I figure that Institutes will end up lasting me the rest of June...its really thick and cumbersome. I am going to be going through Confessions at work on my various "breaks" from the insanity of it all. I hope to finish up Athanasius' On the Incanation later this week. Here are some thoughts on two of these: Thoughts on Institutes: I just got through reading about the deity of Christ and of the Holy Spirit and their union in the Trinity within the first book. (Yes I am dreadfully behind in my reading) I was surprised to see how much emphasis Calvin puts on the nature of the hypostatic union. I think this emphasis is indeed well put, for within the confines of the hypostatic union Calvin can show how each is important to each other. The hypostatic union also brings about a good conversation about the deity of Christ and of the Holy Spirit. Calvin also relies heavily on Scripture--how wonderful!--and uses various Scriptural proofs to bring about the deity of Christ and the Holy Spirit. An interesting note on the issue of the Holy Spirit, though Calvin only spends two sections on Him, he uses an incredible amount of Old Testament references to go about discussing the nature of the Holy Spirit. Interesting I think... Thoughts on Athanasius: Okay, Athanasius has been blowing me away since I first began reading him. His deal with the incarnation is so multi-faceted and so profound I don't think it can be, nor should be, overlooked. In this last section he spoke (this is the section in his Apology to the Gentiles) about how Christ came and manifested Himself in the flesh of mankind because it is only mankind who is outside of the will and plan of God. This is amazing to me, to consider that all the rest of nature is completely within the will of God and will obey every divine word except man gives more credibility to why Christ needed to incarnate Himself in the flesh of mankind in order to restore and correct that which is out of sync with Himself. Some wonder why Christ didn't come some other way, it was because man is so destroyed in their sinfulness that they needed a complete redemption in order to be one with God. Nature does not need this, only mankind. Powerful stuff... posted by Preachin Jesus | 2:07 PM | |
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