(Lewis S. Chafer)
... salvation as resulting from a manner of daily life, both moral and religious, rather than a state wrought by the creative power of God. An appeal for a reformed manner of life is to him "practical" and "reasonable," and he sees little value in the Biblical appeal for personal faith in the saving po ...
... salvation as resulting from a manner of daily life, both moral and religious, rather than a state wrought by the creative power of God. An appeal for a reformed manner of life is to him "practical" and "reasonable," and he sees little value in the Biblical appeal for personal faith in the saving po ...
A third Testament by Malcolm Muggeridge
... British Secret Service gave rise to his idea of portraying each of his chosen thinkers as God’s spies. The territory these men were assigned to is being held or could possibly be held in the future by God’s archenemy. ...
... British Secret Service gave rise to his idea of portraying each of his chosen thinkers as God’s spies. The territory these men were assigned to is being held or could possibly be held in the future by God’s archenemy. ...
Hobbes` Leviathan. The Irresistible Power of a
... and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death” 4. Driven by their passions and lust for power, men find in the condition of mere nature nothing but a perpetual war of all against all. There is, however, a disposition of human nature, which, along with the desire of gain, is th ...
... and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death” 4. Driven by their passions and lust for power, men find in the condition of mere nature nothing but a perpetual war of all against all. There is, however, a disposition of human nature, which, along with the desire of gain, is th ...
Notations on the Commentary on the Song of Songs by Origen (two
... former suggests a much more thorough darkening, not untypical of sin, after which comes staining by malitia which connotes a spirit of spite and nastiness. Still, the Lord receives such persons. -b Turning [converto: 1.2.2c] to him with the password [titulus: P40e] of confession [confessio: acknowle ...
... former suggests a much more thorough darkening, not untypical of sin, after which comes staining by malitia which connotes a spirit of spite and nastiness. Still, the Lord receives such persons. -b Turning [converto: 1.2.2c] to him with the password [titulus: P40e] of confession [confessio: acknowle ...
Series 9 Man Elevated to Share in the Divine Life
... the beginning of conversion, and throughout the process of sanctification.2 Actual grace is a kind of divine impulse given to us in order to help move us towards salvation. Actual grace enables us to cooperate freely with the movement of grace, so as to turn ourselves efficaciously towards God and p ...
... the beginning of conversion, and throughout the process of sanctification.2 Actual grace is a kind of divine impulse given to us in order to help move us towards salvation. Actual grace enables us to cooperate freely with the movement of grace, so as to turn ourselves efficaciously towards God and p ...
Summa Contra Gentiles: I, 13
... Exceeds Plato here, who was primarily interested in essence rather than existence (NO cosmogony, either; thought unnecessary); and even Aristotle held essence to be primary. Even the neo-Platonists only had an emanation theory, emanation of essences (though existence is attended to somewhat); God is ...
... Exceeds Plato here, who was primarily interested in essence rather than existence (NO cosmogony, either; thought unnecessary); and even Aristotle held essence to be primary. Even the neo-Platonists only had an emanation theory, emanation of essences (though existence is attended to somewhat); God is ...
Commentary on Romans - International College of the Bible
... but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith." Thus, then, as opposed to human righteousness, "which is of the law," stands the Divine righteousness of the Gospel. It is easy, too, to see how the Apostle can speak of legal righteousness, or justification by ...
... but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith." Thus, then, as opposed to human righteousness, "which is of the law," stands the Divine righteousness of the Gospel. It is easy, too, to see how the Apostle can speak of legal righteousness, or justification by ...
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary: Romans.
... the leading principles of the Old Testament, this will be sufficiently explained by supposing that the bulk of them, having before they knew the Lord been Gentile proselytes to the Jewish faith, had entered the pale of the Christian Church through the gate of the ancient economy. It remains only to ...
... the leading principles of the Old Testament, this will be sufficiently explained by supposing that the bulk of them, having before they knew the Lord been Gentile proselytes to the Jewish faith, had entered the pale of the Christian Church through the gate of the ancient economy. It remains only to ...
Psalm 51 - JimCarey.us
... greatness of his guilt, and the insufficiency of all legal washings, and the absolute necessity of some other and better thing to wash him, even of God's grace, and the blood of Christ. Matthew Poole. Ver. 2. Wash me...cleanse me. But why should David speak so superfluously? use two words when one w ...
... greatness of his guilt, and the insufficiency of all legal washings, and the absolute necessity of some other and better thing to wash him, even of God's grace, and the blood of Christ. Matthew Poole. Ver. 2. Wash me...cleanse me. But why should David speak so superfluously? use two words when one w ...
John Book 3 - St. Mary Coptic Orthodox Church
... Even though he was the lamp (saith He) both depicted by the books of the law, and proclaimed afore by the voice of the holy Prophets, that he should one day appear, beaming before the true Light, and declaring among you, that ye ought to put in good order the way of your Lord and God: yet since he h ...
... Even though he was the lamp (saith He) both depicted by the books of the law, and proclaimed afore by the voice of the holy Prophets, that he should one day appear, beaming before the true Light, and declaring among you, that ye ought to put in good order the way of your Lord and God: yet since he h ...
SERMONS BY THE REV. JOHN VENN, M. A. RECTOR OF
... 1. In the first place, then, it is to be observed, that the two Apostles appear to have had different objects in view in their respective declarations concerning justification. St. Paul is treating on the method by which a sinner may have his sin forgiven, and become partaker of the salvation of Ch ...
... 1. In the first place, then, it is to be observed, that the two Apostles appear to have had different objects in view in their respective declarations concerning justification. St. Paul is treating on the method by which a sinner may have his sin forgiven, and become partaker of the salvation of Ch ...
Protestant Perspectives on the Uses of the New
... Adam's rib as he sleeps. 20 Man and woman are made for one another; emerging from one flesh, they are called once again to unity. That sexual relations within marriage are closely tied to companionship is borne out at several points in the Gospels where Jesus challenges the Jewish understanding of h ...
... Adam's rib as he sleeps. 20 Man and woman are made for one another; emerging from one flesh, they are called once again to unity. That sexual relations within marriage are closely tied to companionship is borne out at several points in the Gospels where Jesus challenges the Jewish understanding of h ...
syllogism or paradox: aquinas and luther on
... all t h a t God has revealed is brought into its sharpest focus because here we can finally see the nature of God's intention on our behalf. In theology, this central point must condition all the rest; this cross, in all its scandal, offense, and mystery, cannot be captured by any syllogism. Only pa ...
... all t h a t God has revealed is brought into its sharpest focus because here we can finally see the nature of God's intention on our behalf. In theology, this central point must condition all the rest; this cross, in all its scandal, offense, and mystery, cannot be captured by any syllogism. Only pa ...
Westminster Larger Catechism - Providence Presbyterian Church
... Question 52: How was Christ exalted in his resurrection? Answer: Christ was exalted in his resurrection, in that, not having seen corruption in death (of which it was not possible for him to be held), and having the very same body in which he suffered, with the essential properties thereof (but with ...
... Question 52: How was Christ exalted in his resurrection? Answer: Christ was exalted in his resurrection, in that, not having seen corruption in death (of which it was not possible for him to be held), and having the very same body in which he suffered, with the essential properties thereof (but with ...
Notations on the Commentary on the Song of Songs by Origen (one
... of Clairvaux with the intent of seeing how each author employed Scripture to explain a given verse from the Song itself. That led to a formidable compilation of biblical verses from each author, a document is posted on this home page. By stringing together these hundreds of verses from the Old and N ...
... of Clairvaux with the intent of seeing how each author employed Scripture to explain a given verse from the Song itself. That led to a formidable compilation of biblical verses from each author, a document is posted on this home page. By stringing together these hundreds of verses from the Old and N ...
Here - Family Life International
... The Gospel of life, proclaimed in the beginning when man was created in the image of God for a destiny of full and perfect life (cf. Gen 2:7; Wis 9:2-3), is contradicted by the painful experience of death which enters the world and casts its shadow of meaninglessness over man's entire existence. Dea ...
... The Gospel of life, proclaimed in the beginning when man was created in the image of God for a destiny of full and perfect life (cf. Gen 2:7; Wis 9:2-3), is contradicted by the painful experience of death which enters the world and casts its shadow of meaninglessness over man's entire existence. Dea ...
effectual call or causal effect
... very source of our motivation and dispositions. In Berkhof’s words: ‘There is a sense in which calling and regeneration are related as cause and effect.’26 Moreover, regeneration takes place ‘below consciousness’; Hoekema, for instance, locates one’s change of heart in the subconscious.27 This is pr ...
... very source of our motivation and dispositions. In Berkhof’s words: ‘There is a sense in which calling and regeneration are related as cause and effect.’26 Moreover, regeneration takes place ‘below consciousness’; Hoekema, for instance, locates one’s change of heart in the subconscious.27 This is pr ...
(Executable Outlines)
... 2) Who gave us the New Testament, containing the highest standard of morality the world has ever known! -- Does it make sense to call such men liars and frauds? [To accept their testimony and the fact of the resurrection is not only rational, it is the beginning of the kind of faith which will come ...
... 2) Who gave us the New Testament, containing the highest standard of morality the world has ever known! -- Does it make sense to call such men liars and frauds? [To accept their testimony and the fact of the resurrection is not only rational, it is the beginning of the kind of faith which will come ...
Chicken Bones of Christian Thought
... bones” in the throats (in the craw) of those attempting to understand Christian thought from a natural perspective. ...
... bones” in the throats (in the craw) of those attempting to understand Christian thought from a natural perspective. ...
Ethics: What Are We Talking About?
... But in ethics we want to discuss moral goodness, specifically. What does it mean for something to be morally good? Well, this is one of the primary (and disputed) questions of ethics, so it is really up to you to determine what you think is the nature of moral goodness. For the sake of clarity and o ...
... But in ethics we want to discuss moral goodness, specifically. What does it mean for something to be morally good? Well, this is one of the primary (and disputed) questions of ethics, so it is really up to you to determine what you think is the nature of moral goodness. For the sake of clarity and o ...
Business Ethics – Perspectives from Judaism, Christianity and Islam
... distinctions between people on the basis of wealth, real or imagined. It states in James 2:24, 8-9 the following: 2. If there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, with goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; 3. And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clo ...
... distinctions between people on the basis of wealth, real or imagined. It states in James 2:24, 8-9 the following: 2. If there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, with goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; 3. And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clo ...
Between Eusebius and Augustine: Una and the Cult of Elizabeth
... hesitation about keeping in step with the civil law which governs matters pertaining to our existence here below. For, as mortal life is the same for all, there ought to be a common cause between the two cities in what concerns our purely human living” (CG 19.17). In other words, the Christian has a ...
... hesitation about keeping in step with the civil law which governs matters pertaining to our existence here below. For, as mortal life is the same for all, there ought to be a common cause between the two cities in what concerns our purely human living” (CG 19.17). In other words, the Christian has a ...
Open article in new window - Third Millennium Ministries
... no consistency, as to the sense and meaning of the apostle in these assertions; for what is proper and obvious unto the understanding of all men, especially from the opposition that is made between the law and works on the one hand, and faith, grace, and Christ on the other (which are opposed as inc ...
... no consistency, as to the sense and meaning of the apostle in these assertions; for what is proper and obvious unto the understanding of all men, especially from the opposition that is made between the law and works on the one hand, and faith, grace, and Christ on the other (which are opposed as inc ...
Give Me Liberty AND Give Me Death
... us on the right side of the law. We under no circumstances will ever be the source of the medication. We under no circumstances will absolutely ever be in the position of administering medication. No one does this to you. It is not euthanasia. It is not lying there and waiting for someone to admini ...
... us on the right side of the law. We under no circumstances will ever be the source of the medication. We under no circumstances will absolutely ever be in the position of administering medication. No one does this to you. It is not euthanasia. It is not lying there and waiting for someone to admini ...
Open article in new window - Reformed Perspectives Magazine
... gracious initiative. According to Josephus, the Jews were at a distinct advantage among the nations because God had given them the law of Moses and through obedience to the law they were able to live in the hope of the resurrection. 2 Enoch, a work that Sanders does not consider, presents an even mo ...
... gracious initiative. According to Josephus, the Jews were at a distinct advantage among the nations because God had given them the law of Moses and through obedience to the law they were able to live in the hope of the resurrection. 2 Enoch, a work that Sanders does not consider, presents an even mo ...
Summa Theologica
The Summa Theologiae (written 1265–1274 and also known as the Summa Theologica or simply the Summa) is the best-known work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274). Although unfinished, the Summa is ""one of the classics of the history of philosophy and one of the most influential works of Western literature."" It was intended as an instructional guide for theology students, including seminarians and the literate laity. It was a compendium of all of the main theological teachings of the Catholic Church. It presents the reasoning for almost all points of Christian theology in the West. The Summa's topics follow a cycle: the existence of God; Creation, Man; Man's purpose; Christ; the Sacraments; and back to God.Among non-scholars, the Summa is perhaps most famous for its five arguments for the existence of God, which are known as the ""five ways"" (Latin: quinque viae). The five ways, however, occupy under two pages of the Summa's approximately 3,500 pages.Throughout the Summa, Aquinas cites Christian, Muslim, Hebrew, and Pagan sources including but not limited to Christian Sacred Scripture, Aristotle, Augustine of Hippo, Avicenna, Averroes, Al-Ghazali, Boethius, John of Damascus, Paul the Apostle, Dionysius the Areopagite, Maimonides, Anselm, Plato, Cicero, and Eriugena.The Summa is a more structured and expanded version of Aquinas's earlier Summa contra Gentiles, though these works were written for different purposes, the Summa Theologiae to explain the Christian faith to beginning theology students, and the Summa contra Gentiles to explain the Christian faith and defend it in hostile situations, with arguments adapted to the intended circumstances of its use, each article refuting a certain belief or a specific heresy.Aquinas conceived the Summa specifically as a work suited to beginning students: ""Because a doctor of catholic truth ought not only to teach the proficient, but to him pertains also to instruct beginners. As the Apostle says in 1 Corinthians 3: 1–2, as to infants in Christ, I gave you milk to drink, not meat, our proposed intention in this work is to convey those things that pertain to the Christian religion, in a way that is fitting to the instruction of beginners.""It was while teaching at the Santa Sabina studium provinciale, the forerunner of the Santa Maria sopra Minerva studium generale and College of Saint Thomas, which in the 20th century would become the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum, that Aquinas began to compose the Summa. He completed the Prima Pars (first part) in its entirety and circulated it in Italy before departing to take up his second regency as professor at the University of Paris (1269–1272).