2014-10-13T00:00:00+06:00

Last updated on: October 13, 2014 at 12:00 am   By

In his contribution to Advancing Trinitarian Theology, Stephen Holmes defends the classic notion of divine simplicity, that God’s operations ad extra are undivided. Divine actions, he argues, arise from the eternal relations of origin within the Trinity: “Son and Spirit have a movement from an origin in their eternal being, and so their sending corresponds to their eternal relation of origin” (73). So far, so Augustinian. Holmes raises the obvious question about the coherence of Trinitarian theology with the facts of... Read more

2014-10-13T00:00:00+06:00

Last updated on: October 13, 2014 at 12:00 am   By

In his contribution to Advancing Trinitarian Theology, Stephen Holmes defends the classic notion of divine simplicity, that God’s operations ad extra are undivided. Divine actions, he argues, arise from the eternal relations of origin within the Trinity: “Son and Spirit have a movement from an origin in their eternal being, and so their sending corresponds to their eternal relation of origin” (73). So far, so Augustinian. Holmes raises the obvious question about the coherence of Trinitarian theology with the facts of... Read more

2014-10-13T00:00:00+06:00

Last updated on: October 13, 2014 at 12:00 am   By

A young Jane Fonda stares at you from the cover of Michel Pastoureau’s latest, Green: The History of a Color. She wears a dull brown-and-green tartan dress and leans back against the arm of a green sofa, large green-covered books discarded to one side. She’s smoking, but she’s taken a break to fix her green eyes on the camera. Green, you may have noticed, is the theme. From the cover to the last page, where the Fonda photo is repeated, Green is... Read more

2014-10-13T00:00:00+06:00

Last updated on: October 13, 2014 at 12:00 am   By

A young Jane Fonda stares at you from the cover of Michel Pastoureau’s latest, Green: The History of a Color. She wears a dull brown-and-green tartan dress and leans back against the arm of a green sofa, large green-covered books discarded to one side. She’s smoking, but she’s taken a break to fix her green eyes on the camera. Green, you may have noticed, is the theme. From the cover to the last page, where the Fonda photo is repeated, Green is... Read more

2014-10-13T00:00:00+06:00

Last updated on: October 13, 2014 at 12:00 am   By

A young Jane Fonda stares at you from the cover of Michel Pastoureau’s latest, Green: The History of a Color. She wears a dull brown-and-green tartan dress and leans back against the arm of a green sofa, large green-covered books discarded to one side. She’s smoking, but she’s taken a break to fix her green eyes on the camera. Green, you may have noticed, is the theme. From the cover to the last page, where the Fonda photo is repeated, Green is... Read more

2014-10-13T00:00:00+06:00

Last updated on: October 13, 2014 at 12:00 am   By

Frank Ninkovich’s The Global Republic minimizes the role of “Manifest Destiny” and the belief in American exceptionalism in the global rise of the United States. Instead, “the stimulus for the nation’s ascent to dizzying heights of power, far from emanating from within, was . . . of external origin, an inadvertent consequence of the need to keep up with a fast-changing globalizing world that was filled with promise and peril” (1-2). To understand America’s rise, we have to set aside “the... Read more

2014-10-13T00:00:00+06:00

Last updated on: October 13, 2014 at 12:00 am   By

Frank Ninkovich’s The Global Republic minimizes the role of “Manifest Destiny” and the belief in American exceptionalism in the global rise of the United States. Instead, “the stimulus for the nation’s ascent to dizzying heights of power, far from emanating from within, was . . . of external origin, an inadvertent consequence of the need to keep up with a fast-changing globalizing world that was filled with promise and peril” (1-2). To understand America’s rise, we have to set aside “the... Read more

2014-10-10T00:00:00+06:00

Last updated on: October 10, 2014 at 12:00 am   By

Calvin quotes Augustine’s Tractates on John (Institutes 2.16.4) in summarizing God’s motive in sending the Son: “God’s love is incomprehensible and unchangeable. For it was not after we were reconciled to him through the blood of his Son that he began to love us. Rather, he has loved us before the world was created, that we also might be his sons along with his only-begotten Son—before we became anything at all. The fact that we were reconciled through Christ’s death... Read more

2014-10-10T00:00:00+06:00

Last updated on: October 10, 2014 at 12:00 am   By

Calvin quotes Augustine’s Tractates on John (Institutes 2.16.4) in summarizing God’s motive in sending the Son: “God’s love is incomprehensible and unchangeable. For it was not after we were reconciled to him through the blood of his Son that he began to love us. Rather, he has loved us before the world was created, that we also might be his sons along with his only-begotten Son—before we became anything at all. The fact that we were reconciled through Christ’s death... Read more

2014-10-10T00:00:00+06:00

Last updated on: October 10, 2014 at 12:00 am   By

Calvin quotes Augustine’s Tractates on John (Institutes 2.16.4) in summarizing God’s motive in sending the Son: “God’s love is incomprehensible and unchangeable. For it was not after we were reconciled to him through the blood of his Son that he began to love us. Rather, he has loved us before the world was created, that we also might be his sons along with his only-begotten Son—before we became anything at all. The fact that we were reconciled through Christ’s death... Read more

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