11. Who is Jesus Christ? The Son of God and our Lord Jesus Christ are one person in whom the divine and human natures are perfectly and inseparably united. Click on the link to read…
Christology
How Did the Son of God Become Human? (Global Methodist Church Catechism)
11. How did the Son of God become human? He came down from heaven, was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and became truly human. Click on the link to read the…
Why Did the Son of God Become Human? (Global Methodist Church Catechism)
10. Why did the Son of God become human? For us and for our salvation. Click on the link to read the full excerpt at Seedbed: “Why Did the Son of God Become Human?” The…
What Is the Son’s Role in Creation? (Global Methodist Church Catechism)
9. What is the Son’s role in creation? Through him all things were made. Click on the link to read the full excerpt at Seedbed: “What Is the Son’s Role in Creation?” The full list…
Is the Son God? (Global Methodist Church Catechism)
8. Is the Son God? Yes. The Son is eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one being with the Father. Click…
Do You Believe in Jesus Christ? (Global Methodist Church Catechism)
7. Do you believe in Jesus Christ? Yes. I believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God. Click on the link to read the full excerpt at Seedbed: “Do You Believe in Jesus Christ?”…
Nicholas Rudolph Quient, “The Light of God in Christ: Christology and Prevenient Grace in the Prologue of John”
Please click on the link to view Nicholas Rudolph Quient, “The Light of God in Christ: Christology and Prevenient Grace in the Prologue of John,” The American Journal of Biblical Theology Vol 26(35) Aug 31,…
Roy Ingle, “Book Review: *Your Jesus Is Too Safe* by Jared Wilson”
Your Jesus Is Too Safe is a great book! I bought the book after reading several other reviews of the book and thought I would read it and see what the hype was all about. And…
Mark K. Olson, “Early Methodist Christology”
This article is an extract of my chapter “Early Methodist Christology After the Wesleys” in Methodist Christology: From the Wesleys to the Twenty-First Century, eds. Jason E. Vickers and Jerome Van Kuiken. Foundary Books, 2020. [To…
Charles Wesley, “Come Thou Long Expected Jesus”
In light of the current Christmas season of 2023, we posted yesterday on Arminian churchman Charles Wesley (brother of John Wesley) and his Christmas carol “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.” As that post mentioned, Charles…
Charles Wesley, “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing”
Arminian churchman and brother of John Wesley, Charles Wesley, is considered to be one of the greatest hymn writers of all time and was labeled by one Christian History article as the “greatest hymn writer of…
Mark K. Olson, “Early Methodist Christology”
Christmas is a season we celebrate the incarnation. The 18th century saw the rise of anti-Trinitarian theologies that undermined belief in Christ’s deity. Some scholars argue that John Wesley held a deficient view of the…
Josh Thibodaux, “The One”
[The following is an expanded version of a devotional I wrote for a friend’s ministry newsletter] “For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to…
William Lane Craig, The Atonement
Please click on the link to view William Lane Craig, The Atonement (Elements in the Philosophy of Religion; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018) (doi:10.1017/9781108558020). Here is an abstract: The Atonement offers in a concise compass an…
FWS Podcast: Christology
In these episodes Dr. Vic Reasoner will discuss Christology. Alternative Link: Christology (Part 1) Alternative Link: Christology (Part 2) Alternative Link: Christology (Part 3) Alternative Link: Christology (Part 4)
Cur Deus Homo
“God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things” (Colossians 1:19-20, NIV). “Cur Deus homo?” was the great question that challenged the Church for centuries. “Why…
Ben Witherington and Keith Stanglin, Jacob Arminius, Theologian of Grace– Part Three
BEN: There is also a strong emphasis early on in the book on what is called the ‘intellectualist’ approach to the nature of God, which is to say that God’s knowledge is given priority over…
Arminius on Christ Being Head of the Church
Arminius on Christ Being Head of the Church submitted by SEA member, Roy Ingle DISPUTATION LIII ON THE HEAD AND THE MARKS OF THE CHURCH I. Though the head and the body be of one…
Arminius on the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ
Arminius on the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ submitted by SEA member, Roy Ingle VII. The Son is the second person in the Holy Trinity, the Word of the Father, begotten of the…
Arminius’s Christology
One’s justification and thus atonement before God is realized by one’s faith in and union with Christ Jesus (which is akin to Calvinistic doctrine and very much unlike Roman Catholic doctrine). The following is what…
