Tag Archive: christology

Jan
10

Bending our wills

One of the major things which I learnt last year at college was the importance of the fact that Christ has not one will (monothelitism), but two (dyothelitism).  When Christ cried out in Gethsemene, ‘not my will, but your will be done’ I’m reminded that Christ was very human as indeed I am; that his …

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May
31

Pilgrim’s Podcast #34: Seumas MacDonald, Christology, Impassibility, and Haggis!

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This is a cracker of a podcast! Punk music, Latin, Skateboarding, Christology, Purple hair, Impassibility, and Haggis – all in one episode! Seumas MacDonald, a great bloke whom I’m had the pleasure of meeting recently joins us on this podcast.  Seumas is currently undertaking his MTh at Moore Theological College and is putting his Latin …

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Apr
12

St. Cyril and the Suffering of God

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Since late last year I’ve been reading and thinking about a whole lot of Christological things.  Fascinating stuff which simply leads me to wonder and praise!  I think I might blog a little through some thing soon, but here’s an absolutely brilliant quote from Fr. Thomas Weinandy on Cyril’s understanding of the suffering of God: …

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Mar
02

Christology and Carrots

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My journey in thinking about the Extra Calvinisticum has now taken me to the realm of what’s known as the communicatio idiomatum (english: the Communication of the Attributes).  That the attributes (such as omniscience, omnipresence, immensity etc) cannot be transferred between the human and divine natures of Jesus, but are correctly predicated of his person and …

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