The purpose of this paper is to present some of the testimonies of liberal Orthodox theology in late Imperial Russia concerning the theology of Incarnation. Since it may come as a surprise to many people, even to many Orthodox, that a tradition of liberal theology existed in Russian Orthodoxy,...
More broadly there has been a turn to context and a new appreciation of the incarnation in theology – inculturation or contextualization are two ways of expressing it. Trinitarian participation is another way that has been opened up of understanding mission. There has been a new emphasis on ...
THEOLOGY – SIN, SALVATION, AND INCARNATIONWhile Eastern Orthodox Christians speak of fallen nature, they do not mean that human nature has turned nasty in and of itself. Human nature is still made in the image of God; people are still God’s children, and God has never created anything ...
He is the head in Paul’s image of the body. (For contradictions in members of a set, see Russel’s paradox. The paradox is presented with negatives rather than positives.) Nonetheless, both these questions raise the issue of the incarnation and the question of our obedience in faith and...
of God as set forth in the Bible. Then we look at classic texts of the early Church, particularly sections of Irenaeus’sAgainst Heresies, Athanasius’sOn the Incarnation, and Gregory of Nazianzus’sFive Theological Orations. Again and again I point students to the beautiful way in which ...
The profound sensitiveness of Orthodoxy for the Mystery of the Holy Trinity is, in fact, sensitiveness for the specificity of Christian Revelation. The revelation of Christ in His incarnation does not reveal Him as a singular Person, but as a divine Person in communion with other two divine ...
Theophany and Incarnation E. God's Invisibility F. God's Glory (1) The Glory-Theophany (2) Glory as God's Presence (3) God's Glory in Creation (4) God's Reputation (5) Glory and the Trinity G. God's Spirituality (1) Power (2) Authority (3) Presence in Blessing and Judgment (...
Incarnation and Reincarnation An incarnation is the process whereby the non-physical essence of spirit is invested with bodily nature and form. It is a union of the physical plane of existence with the non-physical plane. Reincarnation is the re-cycling of the essence of the spirit into differe...
they had to explain the principal truths of natural religion, such as God, the soul, creation, immortality, and freedom of the will; at the same time they had to defend the chief mysteries of the Christian faith, as the Trinity, Incarnation, etc., and had to prove their sublimity, beaut...
the branch of Christian theology relating to the person, nature, and role of Christ. Pneumatology the branch of Christian theology with the holy spirit Ecclesiology study of the church specifically church building and decoration Incarnation a person who embodies in the flesh a deity, spirit, or ...