As I was studying for my Introduction to Christian Thought final exam, I came across this quote from Alister McGrath’s Historical Theology that I found applicable during this advent season: “Alexandrian writers placed considerable emphasis upon the idea of the Logos assuming human nature. The term ‘assuming’ is important; a distinction is drawn between the
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To start, we’d like to apologize for taking a while to get to the third installment of this series. As you can imagine, the last weeks of the semester are very stressful and busy, particularly for those geniuses who are writing theses like C. Marshall.
Our favorite books are generally not the ones that we disagree with strongly, and neither are they the books which simply reiterate everything that already know. Our favorite books are the ones that put to words the ideas that have been floating in the back of the our mind for months or years or decades,
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“O taste and see that the Lord is good : blessed is the man that trusts in him.” –Psalm 34:8 You know the feeling. The first bloom has died off. What you thought would last forever has withered away. Summer has gone on for quite a while now, and the sultry heat is starting to
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You see, and you turn – that is the thing, which for a moment casts open the beauty of all the world – all concentrated, all of a sudden, in a single melodic line – and you want to turn to the person besides you and say, Look! Look! I have never been happy before
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What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? Psalm 8:4 What is man, that he should be clean? And he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean
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