Friday, July 22, 2011
Sincerity of the Universal Call? Now Here's a Good One!
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
More Reformed Scholastic Christology: Incarnate Person but not Nature? Huh?
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Two REALLY Bad Ideas from Reformed Scholasticism.
Friday, July 15, 2011
Sending Book Proposal Off Today!
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Summary of My Book.
"The basic premise of the book is that the biblical category of promise is central to Lutheran understanding of the person and work of Christ. The speech-act of promise is always an act of self-donation. A person who unilaterally promises to perform a particular act is now bound to take a particular series of actions to fulfill that promise. Therefore, by engaging in the speech-act of promise, the individual promisor effectively donates his or her person to the recipient whom he performs these actions in the service of. Because Scripture tells us that God’s promises stand at the heart of his relationship to creation, the divine-human relationship is fundamentally one of self-donation and human receptivity. The original narrative of creation is one in which creation passively receives the divine Word’s act of unilateral giving. Narrative is constitutive of the ontic ground of creation. Therefore, at its most fundamental ontological level, creation is rooted in the narrative of the first seven days wherein God gracious speaks it forth through an act of fiat. Humanity falls when it becomes alienated from this narrative and accepts an alternative false narration of reality based on self-deification and self-justification. This disrupts the passive relationship of humans to God of giving and receiving, and brings about the condemnation of the law. Redemption is constituted by a divine promise of salvation being given to the first humans in the form of the protevangelium. As a new and effective word of grace, the promise of a savior begins the process of redemption within which God speaks forth a new narrative of creation. In this new narrative, God gives himself in an even deeper manner to humanity. By donating himself through a promise first to the protological humanity and then to Israel, he binds himself to them. This commitment and self-donation grows ever greater throughout the history of salvation to the point that God finally becomes human in act of total surrender. Through this, God enters into the condemnation of the law, neutralizes it in the cross, and brings about a new creation through his omnipotent word of promise actualized in the resurrection. Just as the old creation was ontologically grounded in the narrative of the first seven days, the new creation is ontologically grounded in Christ’s new narrative of death and resurrection."
Friday, July 8, 2011
Why Prayer is NOT a Means of Grace.
Saturday, July 2, 2011
New Flacius Book Published.
Adiaphora and Tyranny:
Matthias Flacius Illyricus on Christian Resistance and Confession in the Adiaphoristic Controversy
Including an introduction by Dr. Oliver Olson
Price $29.99
If you order now through Magdeburg Press, $23.99 (limited time Internet price)
Church orders of 10 or more, $18.99*
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