Posted in atonement, church history on July 9, 2008 | 28 Comments »
Hans Boersma thinks John Owen’s argument on the atonement is founded on incompatible notions. He writes:
On the one hand, Owen insists that it is the covenant of redemption and the death of Christ which give the ius ad rem. On the other hand, he also argues that union with Christ gives the ius [...]
Posted in atonement, church history, john davenant on May 19, 2008 | 8 Comments »
In the latest issue of the Calvin Theological Journal, Richard Muller reviews Jonathan Moore’s English Hypothetical Universalism: John Preston and the Softening of Reformed Theology. He mostly likes the book, but he does take issue with Moore’s presentation of “hypothetical universalism” in relation to the Reformed Tradition. Muller writes:
Moore also underestimates the presence [...]
Posted in atonement, church history on March 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »
In Ursinus’s Commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism, we are given the explanation for the distinction between the “sufficiency” of the atonement and the “efficiency” of the atonement. Ursinus writes:
Christ satisfied for all, as it respects the sufficiency of the satisfaction which he made, but not as it respects the application thereof; for he fulfilled [...]
Posted in atonement, calvin on March 2, 2008 | 42 Comments »
And now there is another reason we must extend this teaching a bit further. It is, as I have already said, that, seeing that men are created in the image of God and that their souls have been redeemed by the blood of Jesus Christ, we must try in every way available to us to [...]
Posted in Mercersburg, atonement, christology on February 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Another difference [between Modern Theology and Mercersburg Theology] is in their central iea. Modern theology makes the atonement or death of Christ, Mercersburg the person of Chirst or the incarnation, its central idea. The importance of this difference can be seen in the fact, for instance, that the atonement itself, or justification by faith, cannot [...]
Posted in atonement, john davenant on February 5, 2008 | No Comments »
John Davenant was perhaps the single most influential delegate at the Synod of Dort (particularly for what he kept out of the final version of the Canons). Much of his influence was examined in my BH post on the subject, but it is certainly the case that he remains a neglected figure. I [...]
Posted in atonement, scripture on February 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
One of the reasons that I thought the Anti-Federal Vision Study Bible blog might have been real is that the arguments it makes, which are absurd, very closely mirror real arguments that I’ve heard in the past few years. The appeal to the Greek in order to make the text mean the opposite of [...]
Posted in atonement, christology, church history, union with Christ on December 27, 2007 | No Comments »
‘When therefore the fullnesse of time was come’, wherein the promise of redemption made unto the first man was to be accomplished by the second, God, the everlasting Father, sent his onely begotten Sonne and eternal and therefore true God, of the same nature with the Father, made of a woman alone, and without the [...]
Posted in atonement, doctrine of God, eschatology, fv, law of god on December 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Ok, so last night I was in Buford T. Justice mode or something. I should have expressed myself a little more professionally (though I’m not a professional), but alas, there is a little Luther left in us all. How about I try this again?
There are two major problems with the current state of [...]
Posted in atonement, church history, john davenant on December 17, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Atonement discussions can often be improperly prejudiced from the onset. Initially when I became Reformed the two options were limited expiation or Arminianism. I didn’t agree with Arminianism, so naturally I went with limited expiation. Later I learned that within “Calvinism” there were other options, most notably “hypothetical universalism” which is equated [...]
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