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The remark that God has made these things known from of old is a way to say that these things were revealed and form a part of God's plan. The new way was revealed and is really an old promise. The phrase "known from of old" (yvword dr' ai@voc, gnösta ap'alönos) recalls Isa. 45:21. Bruce (1990: 341) cites the OT texts about Gentile inclus
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Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
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In all roles theologians are committed to that form of existence arising from Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection. They know that
James H. Cone • God of the Oppressed
The centre of his thought was ‘divine humanity’, mankind’s original and natural orientation towards divinization, and the ‘God-man’, Christ, who brings this orientation to fruition and so joins all of creation to God. Solovyov is also accounted the father of ‘Sophiology’, a movement concerned with reflection on the Biblical figure of the divine Sop
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The centre of his thought was ‘divine humanity’, mankind’s original and natural orientation towards divinization, and the ‘God-man’, Christ, who brings this orientation to fruition and so joins all of creation to God. Solovyov is also accounted the father of ‘Sophiology’, a movement concerned with reflection on the Biblical figure of the divine Sop
... See moreDavid Bentley Hart • The Story of Christianity
Under the pen of Luther, the principles of the movement became ever clearer: the ‘priesthood of all believers’, the complete dependency of the soul on God’s grace, unmerited election to salvation, the ‘bondage of the will’ of fallen humanity (either to the devil or to God), the ‘freedom of the Christian’, salvation by faith and not by works, and th
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In other words, in much popular modern Christian thought we have made a three-layered mistake. We have Platonized our eschatology (substituting “souls going to heaven” for the promised new creation) and have therefore moralized our anthropology (substituting a qualifying examination of moral performance for the biblical notion of the human vocation
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What a charmer. Lamech's behavior is a textbook example of what Augustine calls the libido dominandi, variously translated as the "desire to dominate" or the "will to power." Libido dominandi is raw violence-unprovoked, unrestricted, unconflicted. It is the characteristic driving force of the earthly city, "which, when it s
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