Along with his orthodox views on the death and resurrection of Christ for our sins, Irenaeus is the author of the so-called “Recapitulation” theory of the atonement. According to this view, the fully divine Christ became fully man in order o sum up all humanity in Himself. So, what wa...
The redeeming sacrifice of Jesus is the theme and burden of the whole Epistle to the Hebrews, and in the other Epistles, which the most exacting critics regard as surely Pauline; there is all but a set theory. The main passage is Rom., iii, 23 sq.: “For all have sinned, and do ...
the washing of baptism distinguishes and separates all Christians [christianos omnes] from the rest whom this stream of atonement has not washed and who are not members of Christ…” Pope Pius XI, Quas Primas (#15), Dec. 11, 1925, addressed to the universal Church, concerning entrance into...
Bolingbroke’s attacks upon revealed religion, aimed from the standpoint of a sensationalistic theory of knowledge, were, as a recent writer puts it, “insufferably wearisome”; nor could all his cynicism and satire, any more than the skepticism of the Scottish philosopher, renew general ...
It contributes to feminist and womanist theologies a study of sacrificial ritual at the intersection of three fields: feminist and womanist theologies; ritual theory; and early Christian history. Allowing each of these fields to inform the investigation, a more textured understanding of sacri...
leaves liberation theology's social theory in embarrassingly threadbarecondition.2Novak implies liberation theologians are nothing much beyond garden-vari-... D Parson 被引量: 0发表: 2017年 A critique of the political theology of Slavoj Zizek This chapter critiques the political theology of Slavoj Zi...
persevere, we can lose our salvation. Thus, by our own choosing (not by God’s doing), salvation is not a certainty. While many Protestant churches believe in the theology of “once saved, always saved,” such a novel theory is not found in Scripture and has never been taught by the ...
The theory of interpolations again had hardly found any adherents before Gramberg (1828), Stähelin (1830), and Bleek (1831) returned to the Hypothesis of Documents, proposing it in a somewhat modified form. Subsequently, Ewald, Knobel, Hupfeld, Noldeke, and Schrader advanced each a ...
We cannot conclude without mentioning the theory advanced by the German scholar Vischer. He holds the Apocalypse to have been originally a purely Jewish composition, and to have been changed into a Christian work by the insertion of those sections that deal with Christian subjects. From a doctrin...
Theory of Sacrifice. I. PAGAN SACRIFICE (1) Among the Indians The Vedism of the ancient Indies was, to an extent never elsewhere attained, a sacrificial religion connected with the deities Agni and Soma. A Vedic proverb runs: “Sacrifice is the navel of the world”. Originally regarded ...