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T.F. Torrance: The Trinitarian Faith
In the profound interaction between incarnation and atonement in Jesus, the blessed exchange it involved between the divine-human life of Jesus and mankind has the effect of finalising and sealing the ontological relations between every man and Jesus Christ. Thus 'our resurrection', as Athanasius once expressed it, 'is stored up in the Cross.' ...
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A Short Summary of the Plan of God in Christ
When communicating with those who are unfamiliar with the scriptural support for the true victorious gospel, it can be beneficial to have a starting point from which to branch out as appropriate ...
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“Straight away He put away death” – Athanasius, On the Incarnation §9
To this end He takes to Himself a body capable of death, that it, by partaking of the Word Who is above all, might be worthy to die in the stead of all, and might, because of the Word which had come to dwell in it, remain incorruptible, and that thenceforth corruption might be stayed from all by the Grace of the Resurrection. Whence, by offering unto death the body He Himself had taken, as an offering and sacrifice free ...
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“Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” Sermon for Stephen’s day
In the midst of celebrating Christmas, we should keep in mind that not all Christians are lucky to live in peace and safety. By commemorating the martyrdom of Stephen we ...
Francis Poulenc – O Magnum Mysterium
O great mystery, and wonderful sacrament, that animals should see the newborn Lord, lying in a manger! Blessed is the virgin whose womb was worthy to bear the Lord, Jesus ...
The Son of God was made man! Irenaeus on the coming of God in Christ
How shall man pass into God, unless God has passed into man? And how shall he escape from the generation subject to death, if not by means of a new ...
G.K. Chesterton’s solemn warning against one-sided hope (and a few thoughts on some alternatives)
The Christian hope for all is always in spite of our very plausible, realistic and as such urgent pessimisms about the destiny of most people in the present. This is ...
Available now as paperback! The Everlasting Gospel by Georg Klein-Nicolai
A new paperback edition of Georg Klein-Nicolai's classic, The Everlasting Gospel, is now available on Amazon.com ...
Peter Böhler (1712-1775)
Peter (or Petrus) Böhler (1712-1775) was a German-English Moravian bishop and missionary. Böhler, as witnessed by George Whitefield in a letter to John Wesley, apparently confessed his beliefs in a ...
“Death has lost its power over all.” Athanasius on the union of Christ with humankind
For Athanasius, the divinity of Christ was crucial for the salvation of humanity. By receiving a human body, Christ, the eternal Word of God, bestowed the gift of his divinity ...
James Relly: The Great Salvation Contemplated, epistle III
Hence, I propose, that the elect are not a people chosen to be the objects of God’s love and salvation, to the final exclusion of others: but a people chosen ...