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2023, Breadcrumbs from the Word of God
Since YHWH began forming a people for Himself, how man perceives and describes God has been important. In the early post-apostolic years, heresies cropped up regarding the nature of God and the person of Christ. Today, it is settled orthodoxy within the Christian faith that God is a holy trinity and Christ is fully God and fully man.
International journal for the semiotics of law, 2021
The studies on the history of the notion of “personhood” have largely recognized that Christian thought had a central role in the development and significance of this concept throughout the history of Western civilization. In late antiquity, Christianity used some terms taken from the classic and Hellenistic vocabulary in order to express its own theological content. This operation generated a “crisis” of classical language, namely a semantic transformation in the attempt to address some aspects of reality which were not envisioned by the previous usage of these words. The term person is a paradigmatic example of this process. In fact, from the outset, it played a strategic role in formulating the idea of Incarnation, one of the central doctrines of Christianity. This essay aims to show how, during the first centuries of Christianity, the terms commonly used in order to express the notion of “personhood” (prosōpon, hypostasis and persona) became pivotal elements for the formulation ...
The present paper presents the Theological and Dogmatic definition of the Person of the God-man Jesus Christ, as it has been formulated by the Orthodox Church in the course of time. In the Ecumenical and local synods, the Church proclaimed against the heresies various definitions of faith or dogmas. Dogma, in its essence, is a truth of faith revealed by God, unchangeable, formulated and transmitted by the Church, for man’s salvation. The central dogma of Christianity is the Trinitarian one. Regarding the Person and the Work of Christ, against the heresies promoted by Arius, Nestorius, Eutychius and Macedonius, at the Ecumenical Synods III (Ephesus 431), IV (Chalcedon 451), VI (Constantinople 680-681), the Church officially stated that Jesus Christ is truly God and truly Man, and His Person includes the divine nature, from eternity, yet united in time with the human nature, each nature having its own will, and the human will follows the divine will. This union of the divinity with the humanity in Christ is actually the basis of man’s salvation realized objectively in Christ and actualized personally by all the Christians in the Church, by means of which evil and death are defeated by the resurrection leading to eternal life.
Christology is the foundation and center of Christianity. This paper begins a clear and unambiguous presentation of who Christ was in eternity past, whom Christ was when he walked the Earth, and what Christ came to do. Christ’s incarnational life, death, resurrection, and ascension are the foundation of Christology. Without these four events Christology looses its universal reconciliation (Gk. aποκατάστασις πάντως) for all of creation, and Christianity falls into ruin. The claim that Christ died to reconcile the world rests upon who Christ is. That is, Christology will inform Christian beliefs regarding the all-important work, acceptance, status, and accessibility of aποκατάστασις πάντως as provided by Christ. To be wrong here is to miss the mark and to believe an invention or myth. Although human words are inadequate, divine revelation in the Bible, as debated and establish by councils, creeds, and doctrine, make great, progressive attempts. As discussed here these include Jesus Christ as the second person of the Trinity, the Messiah, pre-existence, and co-equality with the Father and Spirit, incarnation, fully God and fully man (the God-man). Jesus lived as a man in every way except that he was without sin. By living without sin, Jesus became the victor to reconcile the world. His resurrection was a seal of God’s acceptance of that victory. He ascended to the right hand of God the Father, and he will soon return to receive his redeemed and have all put under his feet and made right. The following is a small survey. Full listing and consideration of all Christology has filled thousands of books, lectures, and fueled multitudinous debates. Christology has occupied the greatest Christian minds for millennia and will continue to do so until Christ returns.
Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences, 2016
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are nevertheless “dialogical in nature, products of a consistent and patient exposure and imaginative working out of the subject matter, in conversation with others sharing the same general concerns” (xi). In light of the number of authors in this book who first engaged Mormon thought from an antagonistic and confrontational perspective, and who now seek instead to engage it in more open and considerate ways, perhaps no greater evidence of the fruit of David Paulsen’s tireless efforts to generate thoughtful and respectful interfaith dialogue between LDS and non-LDS thinkers can be found than this fine book itself.
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