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Further Thoughts on Baptism

Drew Trammell has written a fantastic surrejoinder to my last post. It has both the logical/theological rigor that makes for a clarifying discussion, as well as the irenic tone that makes for an edifying one....

April 27, 20131 Comment

A Friendly Rejoinder to Drew Trammell on Baptism

Drew Trammel has written a thoughtful and courteous response to my “Why I Changed My Mind on Baptism” piece from last month. Drew draws attention also to Mark Horne’s video response. Since these two and...

April 23, 20139 Comments

Transfiguration and Atonement

In the last few posts I’ve been outlining the themes of satisfaction and recapitulation in the atonement theologies of theologians like Anselm, Irenaeus, and Athanasius. We’ve seen that Anselm, in the midst of his argument...

December 20, 2012No Comments

Athanasian Atonement = Recapitulation (Irenaeus) + Satisfaction (Anselm)

I gave Athanasius’ De Incarnatione (hereafter DI, all quotations from St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press 1997 version) a careful re-read on a flight the other day, in order to compare his treatment of atonement with those...

December 15, 20123 Comments

Irenaeus’ Doctrine of Recapitulation

Now that the quarter is over, I had a free morning to give Irenaeus’ Against Heresies a quick skim. It was interesting to see how other doctrines, such as the Virgin Birth, the Imago Dei,...

December 10, 20123 Comments

Anselm, Irenaeus, and Recapitulation

A question that has emerged for me in the final few weeks of my atonement seminar is this: is it possible to affirm both an Irenaean/Athanasian view of Christ’s birth (recapitulation) as well as an...

December 4, 20126 Comments

Atonement as a Type

I am continuing to enjoy my atonement seminar. I will be reading my critique of J. Denny Weaver’s The Nonviolent Atonement in class today, which will be fun. So far I would describe my theology...

November 6, 201210 Comments

Barth on Atonement

Our second reading in my atonement seminar was paragraph 59 of Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics, which deals with his doctrine of atonement. Each week all seven of us do the reading, and then one of...

October 4, 20122 Comments

(Re)recovering the Scandal of the Cross

Our first book for my seminar on the atonement was Recovering the Scandal of the Cross: Atonement in the New Testament and Contemporary Contexts, by Joel Green and Mark Baker (IVP Academic, 2000, 2nd ed....

September 29, 2012No Comments