by Fr. Patrick Henry ReardonPerhaps among the least appreciated, and seldom thought on, descriptions of Jesus our Lord is the one given by John the Baptist:"His winnowing shovel is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor; and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn … [Read more...]
The High Christology of the Pre-Pauline Church Creeds
The primitive Church was far from primitive in their understanding, and expression, of Christology.by Fr. Patrick Henry ReardonThe most primitive confessional formulas of Christology (those preserved, for instance, in Romans 1:3-4 and Galatians 4.4) continued to shape the Church's understanding of … [Read more...]
The Potted Creed in the Book of Romans
by Fr. Patrick Henry ReardonAn adequate theological analysis of the Incarnation must devote some attention to the Greek verb gignomai normally translated as "to become." Most often in biblical narratives this verb is used in an impersonal sense, egeneto ("it happened"), the equivalent of the Hebrew … [Read more...]
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