It is amazing how for so many years we can devote ourselves to something so passionately. Twenty years ago, I was living in a rural area around 200km (125 miles) north of our state’s capital. We were publishing articles in…
The truth is the truth because it is the truth. We either serve the truth and allow it to guide us and wash us from what is not true and turning us from darkness to light or we run around like…
This continues a dialog with Ben Myer’s blog post statements 19-21 on how to avoid heresy with the Trinity. UNDERLYING PRINCIPLES OF THE DOCTRINE#19. The canonical principle. OT and NT are a diverse but coherent witness to one God This…
When describing the Trinity as One Being (μία οὐσία), Three Persons (τρεῖς ὑποστάσεις), St Basil (Ep. 38; Con Eun. 2.4) provides a very straight forward explanation to help us grasp what this might mean. Some people are confused as to…
The Word of God is born! Glory to God in the highest and peace on earth and goodwill in all humanity! This is what the angel and the heavenly hosts declared about Jesus Christ. This is the single most momentous…
III. TRINITARIAN THEOLOGY, ANCIENT AND MODERN #16. Ancients: the word “Father” must be stripped of all connotations except mere relation. Moderns: those ancients thought God was male! The debate over the name “Father” is a long standing issue. To say…
The event of the Incarnation of the Son actually happened within our human history. This astonishing news bears enormous significance for how we are to interpret this event of our salvation. The more clearly we understand the implications the more…
At theological college, there was a course called theological foundations. In this course, the lectures outlined the necessary things one should know as the starting point for understanding theology. These were the required pre-requisite that would determine and shape the…
III. TRINITARIAN THEOLOGY, ANCIENT AND MODERN #13. The biggest change in modern trinitarian theology was one of scale: the most minimalist & modest of all doctrines became a Theory of Everything The Trinity was a doctrine that developed slowly as…
In the ancient world, there were formal ways of putting forth ideas in the academic sections of the community. An idea was proposed, it was presented and open to critical analysis where opposing solutions were suggested and then it would…