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Review of Bulgakov’s Lamb of God
This is the hallmark of Bulgakov’s “Sophiology” project. Since it is prone to misunderstanding, and those councils which condemned it likely lacked the philosophical tools to evaluate it, it would be...
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Review of Erling’s World
This is one of the few books that attempts to present the Christian history of medieval Norway in a fair light. At times raw and blunt, Walker’s writing captures some of the “ragged faith” of Flannery...
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Review Moltmann Coming of God
Moltmann, Jurgen. The Coming of God. Fortress Press. Alternates between promising and atrocious. He has some great sections on the nature of death and time, which are about as good as any I have...
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Review Pannenberg Intro Systematic Theology
Pannenberg, Wolfhart. An Introduction to Systematic Theology. Eerdmans. A fantastic read, but ended in a let down. Pannenberg rightly suggests that a lot of our categories for doing systematic...
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Opening post on Palamas Series
I finished reading The Triads (or the Classics of Western Spirituality version). Rather than doing a long, drawn out essay. I am just going to post my observations. Part 1: Philosophy does not...
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Palamas: A Critique
Part One. Some questions: If the breathing technique is so important to prayer, how come none of the apostles ever mentioned it? Granted, one can agree that Scripture doesn’t say everything, but...
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Review of Lacugna’s God for Us
I did the first part here. The Problem of Arius Arius’s challenge was not so much that he had good arguments against the Son’s deity, but that the way he phrased the arguments seem to account for a lot...
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Review of Church Dogmatics I/2
This is not a full review, since I am not dealing with sections 15-18. Those are important because of his discussions of asarkos/ensarkos, but since he takes up that theme elsewhere, I won’t worry...
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Engaging the doctrine of God (review)
The underlying theme in this book is how to appropriate the teaching that God is impassible in light of the many Biblical narratives that seem to suggest otherwise, alongside numerous theological...
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Musings on Methodius of Olympus
All citations taken from Schaff’s Ante-Nicene Fathers volume 6 Pros of Methodius His prose often exquisite and always lyrical. He occasionally approaches the talent of Gregory Nazianzus, the Christian...
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