{"id":4406,"date":"2008-12-06T14:11:13","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T14:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leithart.level2d.com\/?p=1406"},"modified":"2017-09-06T23:50:45","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T17:50:45","slug":"unto-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/leithart\/2008\/12\/unto-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Unto death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<\/head>

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John Meyendorff gets the nub of Cyrillian \u2013 one is tempted to say simply orthodox <\/em> \u2013 Christology in this brief statement: \u201cGod without ceasing to be God, made human nature his own <\/em> to the point of mortality.\u201d <\/p>\n

God joins Himself to humanity, makes it His, and won\u2019t let go. Even death cannot shake Him loose from us. When death looms, the Son doesn\u2019t play the Nestorian and shrink back in horror. He clings to the assumed humanity even to the grave. <\/p>\n

This is what Christology means: God literally loves us to death. <\/p>\n

Also beyond: Because love is stronger than death. In the flesh, He passes through death and triumphs over it. <\/p>\n

As Barth says, He wills to be God only as God-with-us, the \u201cus\u201d being us sinners and mortals, Dasein <\/em> being toward death. Or as Jenson says, in Christ God shows Himself faithful unto death, and then yet again faithful. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Meyendorff gets the nub of Cyrillian \u2013 one is tempted to say simply orthodox \u2013 Christology in this brief statement: \u201cGod without ceasing to be God, made human nature his own to the point of mortality.\u201d God joins Himself to humanity, makes it His, and won\u2019t let go. 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