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Tag Archives: origen
We Believe in One Lord Jesus Christ (ed. McGuckin)
John McGuckin gives us an outstanding, yea even world-class compendium of Patristic Christology. It nicely succeeds the first volume in the series. McGuckin notes a set of “ciphers” that explain the theology behind the Nicene Creed: “‘Christ’ becomes a cipher … Continue reading
Posted in Church History, Fathers, theology
Tagged athanasius, basil, christology, ephrem syrian, gregory of nazianzus, gregory of nyssa, john mcguckin, mind, origen
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J. Macleod Campbell (The Nature of the Atonement)
Campbell, J. Macleod. The Nature of the Atonement. Eerdmans. Macleod Campbell represents a different stream of Scottish theology. It is Reformed theology without limited atonement. His argument, to be presented below, is incomplete in many ways. He really doesn’t develop a … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, theology
Tagged athanasius, atonement, imputation, james torrance, limited atonement, macleod campbell, origen, scottish theology, thomas torrance
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Review: Torrance, Space, Time, and Incarnation
Torrance, Thomas F. Space, Time, and Incarnation. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1969 [1997]. At barely 90 pages of text, Thomas Torrance wrote a book on cosmology that shocked the theological world. If his arguments in this book obtain, then all … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Philosophy, theology
Tagged aristotle, athanasius, einstein, hellenism, isaac newton, james clerk maxwell, origen, plato, thomas torrance
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Review: Arius: Heresy and Tradition
by Rowan Williams Date: January 2014 Being faithful to church teachings does not mean merely chanting former slogans, but critically receiving the church’s witness and faithfully putting it into a new context in response to a new crisis. Rowan Williams … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Church History, Fathers, Philosophy
Tagged arianism, athanasius, neo platonism, origen, philo, rowan williams, substance
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Readings in Christian Ethics (O’Donovan list)
Focusing mainly on more classical and patristic texts. These are the texts in the O’Donovans’ work. So, if you wanted to read in the patristic tradition and how earlier Christians engaged in political reflection, this is a good list. Justin … Continue reading
Posted in Fathers, politics
Tagged ambrose, augustine, clement, eusebius, irenaeus, john chrysostom, justin martyr, lactantius, oliver o'donovan, origen, tertullian
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Origen and the Life of the Stars
Alan Scott sheds light on key problems in Hellenism by focusing on Origen’s view of the stars’ souls. Ancient Greece certainly discussed the possibility that the stars are alive (and we will use the phrase” alive,” “intelligence,” and “souls” interchangeably … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Fathers
Tagged angels, clement, gnosticism, hellenism, origen, philo, plato, soul, toll houses
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Gregory for Origen
I don’t think I am an Origenist. I don’t think his protology survives Maximus’s deconstruction of it. But I do think it is wrong of “Trad Fundies” to bash Origen as a “heretic” when few of the greatest fathers of … Continue reading