Boethius (3): God is Happiness
Some scholars make much of the fact that Boethius, as he is writing The Consolation of Philosophy at the end of his life, frames his book as a dialogue with Lady Philosophy rather than with...
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Boethius (2): Love, Reason, and God
I’ve been thinking lately about the difference between a Christian view of love and reason and a naturalistic view of love and reason. In a Christian worldview, the fundamental reality is the triune God. Within...
Read moreBoethius (1): On the blessings of bad fortune
In my down time these days I am reading and really enjoying Boethius’ The Consolation of Philosophy as part of my pre-reformation church history reading project. Boethius (c. 480-524) was a Christian philosopher and statesman...
Read moreJustification (4): True Righteousness
When we were in Rehoboth I read Martin Luther’s Concerning Christian Liberty as part of my study on justification. As I read I kept noticing two themes: First, it is justifying faith apart from works...
Read moreThe Centrality of Luther’s Question
This is a provocative statement, but nevertheless a good caution, it seems to me, on the danger of getting so caught up in corporate-narrative-biblical categories that we lose sight of the urgency of Luther’s struggle,...
Read moreHumility exalts
I like Augustine’s observation here because it confronts the false notion that when we are humble, we feel low and somber all the time. “There is, therefore, something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the...
Read moreAthanasius (3): Incarnation and Atonement
I’ve been writing an article this spring and summer in which I question John Stott’s emphasis on the cross over the resurrection on pp. 232-234 of The Cross of Christ (IVP, 2006). While reading Athanasius’...
Read moreAthanasius (2): the extra-Calvinisticum
I’ve written before on Calvin’s extra – his view that during the incarnation God the Son still filled the heavens and upheld all things as Infinite God. Before Calvin, this view was asserted by Athanasius...
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Athanasius (1): Did Jesus get sick?
As part of my study of pre-reformation theology, I am reading Athanasius’ On the Incarnation of the Word, which is a great little primer on the Christian faith. (If you get the Popular Patristics edition,...
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