Christology

Based on lack of Arius’s own writings, it is hard to fully piece together what Arius’s Christology was. Still, there are some very obvious pieces of his Christology that will be discussed later. It can be ascertained, though, that Arius and his followers did not put the Son on the same level as the Father. William Haugaard emphasized this point well when he wrote, “the primary…

law. So he is in turn the boundary and the judgement of the human, but also the beginning of our new existence, its center. Christ as the center of human existence means that he is our judgment and justification” (Bonhoeffer, Christ the Center/Christology 60). Now that the truth is in us, it must be shared with all. This is what Roberts calls the Proclaimed Kingdom, for Acts 1:4, 8, says, “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in…

who love him,’ God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God” (1 Cor 2:9). Because of Jesus’ work on the cross, we now have insight into what I’ll describe later as “the Word of God.” In Christology: A Biblical, Historical, and Systematic Study of Jesus, Gerald O’Collins identifies several titles that his disciples used for Jesus that, after his death and resurrection, seemed to take on new meaning from earlier, Old…

Eastern Orthodox theology relies on the experiences, and developments that took place centuries ago in the East. It is more “spirit-sensitive” and saturated with pneumatology. This emphasis does not exclude Christ or the trinity in its theology. The Eastern Orthodox Church believes, in the holy trinity and that all three persons share in the activity of the others. The doctrine of salvation focuses on continuous growth in sanctification resulting in deification, or rather becoming like God.…

The saving significance of Christ 's death relates to the perception of Christ’s person. The Christology of Barth possess an exclusively unique view of Jesus Christ’s status which eventually brings Barth the development of his Christocentric methodology. As a matter of fact, it is in this high Christology that ascribes the reconciling work to the vicarious death of Christ on the cross and, therefore, presents both God’s mercy and righteousness. In the doctrine of reconciliation in which Barth…

Balthasar, Hans Urs Von, and Brian McNeil. Explorations in Theology: Creator Spirit. Vol. III. San Francisco, Calif: Ignatius, 1993. Print. In section II, chapters two and seven of Explorations in Theology: Creator Spirit, Balthasar provides us with a particular Johannine oriented pneumatology. The bulk of his argument seems to be situating the Holy Spirit within an understanding of the Holy Trinity, which establishes the Spirit as truly divine, rejecting any notions to just reduce the Holy…

As a Christian, one usually wrestles with questions about how one understands when to act, react, decide and what to consider right in crucial circumstances. I would claim that as one born into a Christian family, it becomes easy to get used to witnessing the ritualistic style of practicing Christianity and living out one’s faith as the Body of Christ. However, considering the example of one who might have not been born into a Christian family, rather identified him or herself with another non-…

(vv.1-21) with an expanded section of praise and thanksgiving for God’s answer of the lament (vv. 22-31).” Psalm 22 is a unique Psalm because of its strong connection to the final passion week of Christ’s life. James Luther Mays in “Prayer and Christology: Psalm 22 as Perspective on the Passion” states how strong the connection is: “There are thirteen (perhaps seventeen) Old Testament texts that appear in the passion narrative of the Gospels . . . Of the thirteen, nine come from the Psalms.…

Each of the four gospels share the answers of who Jesus is and what he has done for us in four distinctively different ways. Through stories, letters, and reoccurring parables, if one does not understand Jesus’ identity and his divine works through one gospel, they can look to another to gain a clearer understanding. The story where the question of paying taxes to Caesar is posed to Jesus appears in all three Synoptic Gospels, Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Each Synoptic has a different way of…

I found the concept of the Cosmic Christ in chapter 5 of Jesus Through The Centuries quite intriguing. I always thought when people called Jesus the ‘Cosmic Christ’ it was in reference to his continued being and presence in the lives of his believers after his death. I was unaware of the name ‘Jesus Christ of Logos’. Logos in Greek means reason. It means the same when applied to Jesus’ name and so much more at the same time. It is the word of God, as well as the divine revelation and at the same…