Revisiting the Patristic Theology of the Icon. Part 1: Setting Aside our Western Assumptions.
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Revisiting the Patristic Theology of the Icon. Part 1: Setting Aside our Western Assumptions.
Icons are something like sacraments in materiality: they participate in what they represent and communicate the sacredness to the believer.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
Icons are something like sacraments in materiality: they participate in what they represent and communicate the sacredness to the believer.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
The Swedish Lutheran theologian, Gustav Aulén, published a seminal work on the types of atonement theory in 1930 (Christus Victor). Though time and critical studies have suggested many subtler treatments of the question, no one has really improved on his insight. Especially valuable was his description of the “Classic View” of the atonement. This i
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the church fathers grasped fully the import of the incarnation and its recapitulation of humanity for a unifying and glorious vision of what it means to be human.