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ACNA and Women Bishops3 comments

Barchester wrote 2 weeks ago: Barchester received a notice that a certain Alan Stewart in the Anglican Church of North America in … more →

Tags: Ecclesiology

All in the Family

Barchester wrote 2 weeks ago: Barchester received word from ENS that, Khushnud Mussarat Azariah, the wife of Presiding Bishop Samu … more →

Tags: News

The Highest Attainment In Christian Life

A. Barnes wrote 3 weeks ago: “”Do this in remembrance of Me.” 1 Corinthians 11:25 The secret of all the noble h … more →

Tags: Christology, Practical Theology

The Mystery of Holy Oil

chironspupil wrote 3 months ago: This post was originally a paper I turned in for a class in Sacramentology in 2006.  Please do not u … more →

Tags: Christian, annointing, Anointing, Anointing of the Sick, Extreme Unction, holy oil, Sacrament

"Junia Among the Apostles"

Barchester wrote 8 months ago: by John Hunwicke In this important work, Epp investigates the mysterious disappearance of Junia from … more →

Tags: Anthropology, Church History

Made present

donagh wrote 8 months ago: What passes for sacramentology these days drives me insane sometimes. I get into the occasional frie … more →

Tags: Theology, Christ, Cult of the Eucharist, Eucharist, Holy Communion, sacramental theology, Salvation, Satisfaction, Sin

My Soul Is Not Me

Eric Parker wrote 1 year ago: Peter Leithart and others have noted the post-modern phenomenon of what I shall call the impenetrabl … more →

Tags: Mind/Body, Philosophy, Thomas Aquinas, Bible, Wright, Baptism, metaphysics, Forms, Leithart

Liturgical Theology

Eric Parker wrote 1 year ago: [In baptism] the infant, a silent preacher of the doctrine of St. Paul, cannot even appear to be per … more →

Tags: Ecclesiology, Soteriology, Faith, Baptism, Liturgy

Faith and Eucharist: Aquinas and Calvin In Harmony

Eric Parker wrote 1 year ago: I recently presented (in class) a study concerning the placement of Thomas Aquinas and John Calvin w … more →

Tags: Thomas Aquinas, Ecclesiology, History, Eucharist, John Calvin, Theology, Reformation, Medieval Authors, Henri de Lubac

Calvin's Theology of Sacramental Efficacy In a Nutshell

Eric Parker wrote 1 year ago: Commenting on Ephesians 5:26 Calvin declares:  When Paul says that we are washed by baptism, his mea … more →

Tags: Soteriology, Eucharist, Bible, John Calvin, Theology, Reformation, Sign, Ephesians, Spirit

I Guess I'm a Sacramental Calvinist1 comment

Eric Parker wrote 1 year ago: In the great American debate between John Williamson Nevin and Charles Hodge, the problem [of predes … more →

Tags: History, Eucharist, John Calvin, Theology, Reformation, 19th Cent. Theologians, J.W. Nevin, Calvinism, Charles Hodge

The Free Offer of the Sacraments

Eric Parker wrote 1 year ago: In explaining the relationship between the sign and the seal in the sacraments Calvin shows the simi … more →

Tags: John Calvin, Theology, Reformation, free offer, signum/res

de Lubac on Communion

Eric Parker wrote 1 year ago: Being in communion with someone means to receive the body of the Lord with them. Being united with t … more →

Tags: Ecclesiology, Eucharist, Theology, 20th Cent. Theologians, Henri de Lubac, Ritual, Body of Christ

Eucharistic Presence: Are Calvinists Skeptics? (III)

Eric Parker wrote 1 year ago: Catherine Pickstock has demonstrated that the aporia of learning, the proverbial gap between neumena … more →

Tags: Philosophy, Thomas Aquinas, Eucharist, John Calvin, Theology, Reformation, Medieval Authors, Epistemology, reason/revelation

Aquinas: A Spiritual Partaking of Christ in the Eucharist

Eric Parker wrote 1 year ago: I’m presently combing modern Thomist interpretations of the Eucharist in an effort to find sim … more →

Tags: Thomas Aquinas, Eucharist, John Calvin, Theology, Reformation, Medieval Authors

Theosis4 comments

Eric Parker wrote 1 year ago: Q:  Does faith unite one to Christ? A:  Yes Q:  Is Christ God? A:  Yes Well, there you have it.  Now … more →

Tags: Soteriology, Eucharist, Theology, Theosis, 19th Cent. Theologians, J.W. Nevin, Union with Christ, mercersburg

An Increased Union with Christ

Eric Parker wrote 1 year ago: A common speculation regarding the Lord’s Supper is that there is no special partaking of Chri … more →

Tags: Christology, Soteriology, Eucharist, Peter Martyr Vermigli, reformed scholastics, Theology, Theosis, theopoesis, Union with Christ

St. Augustine: The Church as Sign

Eric Parker wrote 1 year ago: ‘They drank,’ he [Paul] said, ‘of the spiritual Rock that followed them, and that … more →

Tags: Christology, Ecclesiology, Augustine, Theology, Church Fathers, visible/invisible church, logos


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