Pre-fall Mediation

Of the similitude between Adam’s condition and our own, Calvin writes:
But if Adam’s hitherto innocent, and of an upright nature, had need of monitory signs to lead him to the knowledge of divine grace, how much more necessary are signs now, in this great imbecility of our nature, since we have fallen from the true [...]

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Jesus Centered

I want to say that there was no new creation until Jesus. This seems self-evident to me, especially when we use both systematic and biblical theology together.
I suppose there is one sense where there were all sorts of new creations: Adam to Noah to Abraham, etc. but the big one, the decisive NEW- the [...]

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Mercersburg and the New Human Race

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 [...]

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Mercersburg and Incarnation

According to modern theology, the Son of God assumed our nature in order that through it, as a means to an end beyond himself, he might procure redemption for humanity as fallen in Adam. According to Mercersburg, the very assumption of that nature, in its sinless perfection, was itself the redemption of humanity. In him [...]

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Mercersburg Christology

By the Christological principle we understand the idea of an eternal union of God and man in the person of Christ as the medium of God’s self-communication and self-revelation to the world, and the consummation of all his ways and works. This implies on the one hand that Christ is the principle of the divine [...]

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Life Comes From the Divine Essence

In denying the efficacy of human works in our justification before God, Calvin makes this passing, but nevertheless interesting, remark about angels:
Although he refers to that spotless righteousness of God, before which even angels are not clean, he however shows, that when brought to the bar of Gods all that mortals can do is to [...]

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Simplicity and Communicatio

The doctrine of divine simplicity is a necessary description of God’s infinity. It states that all attributes of the divine nature are coextensive with that nature and indeed, they are the nature. There is nothing between the attributes and the nature. There is nothing that separates them, for that something would need [...]

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Zanchi: For It Was the Blood of God

‘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 [...]

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From John Donne’s La Corona

LA CORONA.
Deign at my hands this crown of prayer and praise,
Weaved in my lone devout melancholy,
Thou which of good hast, yea, art treasury,
All changing unchanged Ancient of days.
But do not with a vile crown of frail bays
Reward my Muse’s white sincerity ;
But what Thy thorny crown gain’d, that give me,
A crown of glory, which doth [...]

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The Sum of it All is Christ

God died in the flesh, that man might live in the Spirit.

~Edward Polhill A View of Some Divine Truths pg. 10

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