Wolfhart Pannenberg on the History of Christology (June 9, 2014)

Wolfhart Pannenberg speaking at a CDU conference in Bonn, 1983 In Wolfhart Pannenberg's famous Christology book, Jesus: God and Man, he provided an impressive outline of how Christology as a dogma had developed historically. All Christian doctrines develop over time as the Church revises its talk about God, as Karl Barth would […]

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Herman Bavinck on Anselm’s Scholasticism. (April 27, 2012)

Herman Bavinck (1854 - 1921) wrote the arguably best Reformed Systematic Theologies: the four volume work, Reformed Dogmatics. He was a Dutch Reformed Theologian and in the Prolegomena to Reformed Dogmatics, he wrote a very helpful critique of Anselm that is a good conclusion to my Anselm posts: [46] "Scholasticism passed through three […]

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Anselm’s Cur Deus Homo and Satisfaction Atonement Theory (April 26, 2012)

Anselm of Canterbury's (1033 – 1109)  Cur Deus Homo (Why God Became Man) is particular famous for being the first concise statement of the "Satisfaction Theory of Atonement." Anselm's Satisfaction theory is the bedrock for all modern orthodox understandings of atonement, including the fullest expression in "Penal-Substitutionary Atonement." Anselm argues that the previous […]

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Criticisms of Anselm’s Ontological Argument (April 23, 2012)

Anselm of Canterbury is most famous for his Ontological Argument for the existence of God, which is that "God is the greatest necessary being that which may be thought of" (paraphrase). Although this argument has been presented as unassailable and irrefutable, there have been, however, some very important attempted refutations […]

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Anselm of Canterbury’s Ontological Argument (April 19, 2012)

Anselm (1033-1109) was Archbishop of Canterbury and wrote many influential works, including his Proslogium, Monologium and Cur Deus Homo. He is most famous for his Ontological Argument, which is one of the most famous proofs for the existence of God (in Proslogium), as well as for his argument for Satisfaction Atonement […]

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Martin Luther and The Great Exchange (March 28, 2012)

I've been told by many people that Martin Luther referred to 2 Corinthians 5:21 as "The Great Exchange." But I've been unable to verify that Luther had ever actually used the term "The Great Exchange." For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in […]

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