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The justified pastor—the man justified by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone to God’s glory alone, who happens to be a pastor—when taken on his good day or bad day, ministry high or ministry low, will be received with gladness and welcome. Clothed in the righteousness of him in whom you trust, how can you be turned away? You will not
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Alexei Khomyakov (1804–60), a poet, philosopher, political theorist and theologian, who was the first to expound the ‘Slavic Christian’ ideal of Sobornost – which might be translated as ‘concordance’, ‘integralism’ or ‘harmony’ – as both a spiritual and a political principle. Khomyakov was equally contemptuous of capitalism and socialism, which he
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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
... See moreDavid Bentley Hart • The Story of Christianity
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
... See moreDavid Bentley Hart • The Story of Christianity
Alexei Khomyakov (1804–60), a poet, philosopher, political theorist and theologian, who was the first to expound the ‘Slavic Christian’ ideal of Sobornost – which might be translated as ‘concordance’, ‘integralism’ or ‘harmony’ – as both a spiritual and a political principle. Khomyakov was equally contemptuous of capitalism and socialism, which he
... See moreDavid Bentley Hart • The Story of Christianity
Pavel Florensky
David Bentley Hart • The Story of Christianity
Luther was an expert in the law of God, and every day he was in terror as he looked in the mirror of the law and examined his life against God’s righteousness. We are not in terror, because we have blocked out the view of God’s righteousness. We judge ourselves on a curve, measuring ourselves against others. We never judge ourselves according to
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