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The Persuasive Power of a Mother’s Breast
An interesting paper by Salvador Ryan, The Persuasive Power of a Mother’s Breast: The Most Desperate Act of the Virgin Mary’s Advocacy, discusses the once-popular images of Mary breastfeeding Jesus, or exposing her breast to him, as depicting two forms … Continue reading
Posted in Theology
Tagged art, christology, intercessor, mary, medieval, modalism, trinity, virgo lactans
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Gender and the Trinity
Debra Dean Murphy has posted an interesting essay proposing a “third way” to think about marriage, grounded in trinitarian theology rather than the bible: The source of a sound theology of marriage cannot be the Bible exclusively or perhaps even primarily, … Continue reading
How we understand the name(s) Jesus Christ
When I think of the second person of the Trinity, I’ve always had a tendency to think of Jesus as his human name and Christ as his divine name: two names for his two natures. In theology school, I encountered … Continue reading
Posted in Pneumatology
Tagged atonement, christology, holy spirit, pinnock, schwager, trinity
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Zizioulas’ Pneumatology and Congar’s Spirit Substitutes
This week, one of my classmates presented on the “communion pneumatology” of John Zizioulas, a highly respected Eastern Orthodox theologian who has been active in the ecumenical movement for many years. I had previously encountered his communion ecclesiology, and his … Continue reading
Posted in Ecclesiology, Pneumatology
Tagged biblicism, christology, congar, eucharist, magisterium, mary, trinity, zizioulas
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Richard Bauckham, “Divine and Human Community in the Gospel of John” « Biblical and Early Christian Studies
Some very interesting points in this RBECS report of Richard Bauckham’s paper on “Divine and Human Community in the Gospel of John”: – Early Jewish background: The word ‘one’ is hugely potent theologically in the Jewish Second-Temple readings (Deut 6:4; … Continue reading
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