January 2011
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The Theological Culture of Fear and The Potential...
This week is a down week here at Princeton Seminary. Fall Short term assignments had to be turned in by 12pm and a near week long ‘break’ has been inagurated. Down time doesn’t mean time away from theology, of course, but rather time for personal theological interests, goals, and reflection. For me, this means time to run through David Kelsey’s theological anthropology,...
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Eucharistic Sacrifice, Synergism, and Another Look...
Staying true to the Reformation principles of the centrality and completeness of Christ’s historic sacrifice, Torrance states, “Just because [the work of Christ] is complete already we cannot think in terms of an extension of the incarnation, but only of an eschatological ‘repetitition’ of the incarnation … which is the doctrine enshrined in the sacrament of holy communion” (Incarnation,...
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Eucharistic Sacrifice, Synergism, and Another Look...
As a final look at Hunsinger’s book, it seems to me that the root cause beneath the innumerable problems for Eucharistic sharing is synergism, namely the role of merit in insuring and propagating salvation in Roman Catholic soteriology and Eucharistic theology. Though I am not certain how far Hunsinger would follow this, here’s an interepretation of his book that seeks to make that...
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Hunsinger, Enemy-love, & The Lord's Supper
”[T]he centrality of the Nicene eucharist carries missional implications. Where the gospel is rightly preached, and then rightly embodied in the eucharist, the mission imparted to the church is necessarily one of reconciliation and peace. Because it is God’s enemies who are the objects of God’s love — “while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the...
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"The Church after Google": PTR (Fall 2010)
The fall 2010 Princeton Theological Review is now available on the web for (pdf) download. Be sure to check out Travis Pickell’s “Thou Hast Given Me a Body: Theological Anthropology and the Virtual Church,” and “Theo-blogging and the Future of Academic Theology,” co-authored by Princeton Seminary Ph.D. candidates Travis McMaken and David Congdon. As an aside,...
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Transubstantiation and Inerrancy: Pneumatological...
By way of analogy, Prof. Bruce McCormack often links Verbal Plenary Inspiration (VPI) with the conceptual framework of Apollinarian Christology. As a necessary consequence of the VPI model, there is a kind of vacation of the human intellect and an indwelling of the Holy Spirit in the place of the nous. The ‘character’ and historicity of the human individual is retained, but content of...
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Spring '11 Classes and Thoughts on the Eucharist
After many modifications (and much cajoling by particular people), I have finally settled on my Spring 2011 course schedule: (Spring Long) 1. Intro. to NT Studies (Profs. Clifton Black and George Parsenios) 2. Pastoral Care and the Life Cycle (Prof. Donald Capps) 3. Speech Comm. II (Prof. Jeffrey Frymire) 4. Karl Barth (Prof. George Hunsinger) (Spring Short) 1. Women and Cultural Interpretation in...
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Barth and the Dangerous Business of God-talk
“In dogmatics,” Barth claims, “the Church has to measure its talk about God by the standard of its own being, i.e., of divine revelation. Its talk about God, however, is that of the intrinsically godless reason of man which is inimical to belief” (CD I/1; 28). Here Barth draws out parameters for doing dogmatic theology in distinction from E. Brunner’s eristic...
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Calvin on Christ as the Goal of Scripture
John 5.39 - “You search the scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness to me.” ——————————————————————————————“We learn from this passage that...
