An abiding concern of contemporary work in Christology has been the relationship between the person and work of Christ and the desire to avoid artificial separations between the two. As just one example, Daniel Treier, in his recent Lord Jesus Christ, frames his account as the narrating of a “theodramatic ontology” in an explicit acknowledgement … Read more
Recently, a large amount of academic literature has been devoted to eschatological topics usually focused on a particular millennial view or speculations about the timing of the Parousia, among other topics. However, it seems that little work has focused on the early church’s views of eschatology which subsequently led to its formulation in the Nicene … Read more
In his well-known monograph, Conciliar Christology, Timothy Pawl purports to provide a model of the incarnation that coherently affirms all the declarations of the ecumenical creeds and councils. Recently, Pawl has extended his model to incorporate a version of divine simplicity as well. Unfortunately, Pawl’s accommodation results in both argumentative and metaphysical grounding problems. On … Read more
Are the creeds binding on all Christians in different places and at different times? What is the relationship of the ecumenical creeds of the church to contemporary global theology? Is it possible to be biblical without being creedal? These are some of the questions that this paper seeks to address. There are global theologians who … Read more
It is not hard to catalogue accounts of the complaints against the Creed’s brevity regarding pneumatology. Many believe the Creed is pneumatologically deficient, or perhaps more politely, it has made an unfortunate pneumatological oversight. It had Christological fish to fry, and the Spirit would have to wait. I want to suggest that this apparent inattention … Read more
The teaching that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son, sometimes called double procession, is known as the filioque. As A. Edward Siecienski lays out in his history of the filioque controversy, it dates back at least to Augustine in the fifth century. It was added to the Nicene-Constantinopolitan creed by the … Read more
The Council of Nicaea not only marked a crucial moment in theology but also in politics. The role of Emperor Constantine in convening and attending the council represented the beginning of a 4th century rethinking of Christianity in relation to political power. Key 4th century Christian thinkers within the Latin and Greek speaking world, such … Read more
Against some who have argued for the erasure of sex distinctions in the new creation and others who have seen in the hope of bodily resurrection the promise of a different ontological order, this paper will argue that just as our embodied sex provides the true ground for gender identity in this age, so it … Read more
The modern recovery and renewal of confessional Christianity in evangelicalism welcomes reflection on the construction of confessional standards and the ongoing import the process of their construction has for our relationship to these confessions. While many relate to creeds solely as rooted in and for the past, others today appeal to the creeds and confessions … Read more
In recent decades, many Christian leaders and scholars have insisted that the questions of how and when God created the world should not be considered as a test of orthodoxy. They have argued that the “how” and “when” of creation are matters of secondary or even tertiary importance over which Christians should agree to disagree. … Read more