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Steven Nemes. Theological Authority in the Church: Reconsidering Traditionalism and Hierarchy
No full textMere Incarnation: On the Fallenness View of Jesus\u27s Human Nature
No full textIn what follows I investigate the view that Jesus assumed a fallen human nature (the fallenness view). The first half of the essay centers on the available literature around the fallenness view. I here show first how others have distinguished between fallenness and sinfulness, and second the relation of fallenness and temptation in order to get a better sense of what it means to be tempted “as we are;” I then move to raise a few immediate concerns with the fallenness view. The second half of the essay is more constructive. Crisp has observed, “An important motivation in much of the literature in favor of the fallenness view is that Christ must assume a fallen human nature in order to heal fallen human natures” (2019, 244). I take up this line of reasoning with respect to Gregory’s axiom in order to show that fallenness is not itself a likely object of healing, but rather the kind of thing of which such an object (e.g., the human nature) might be healed. I will show that though the fallenness view is logically permissible, there is little impetus to affirm it. An unfallenness view is thus to be preferred
Eleonore Stump and Judith Wolfe, eds. Biblical Narratives and Human Flourishing: Knowledge Through Narrative. Routledge Studies in Analytic and Systematic Theology.
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Your Application Is Being Processed: A New Ecumenical Model of Purgatory
No full textThe Christian doctrine of Purgatory (CDP) is resurgent across confessional divides. Many philosophers and theologians have endorsed the Sanctification Account of CDP, according to which Purgatory provides the post-mortem moral purification required for believers to enter Heaven. The Sanctification Account can be embraced by Protestant and Orthodox Christians, who have historically disavowed CDP. However, its proponents typically ignore or repudiate traditional Catholic explanations of Purgatory’s purpose. Consequently, despite claims that Catholic doctrine merely affirms the Sanctification Account, there is a fresh challenge to CDP’s ecumenical reception. In this paper, I offer a new understanding of Purgatory – the Application Account – which should prove acceptable to Catholics and non-Catholics alike. I further show how the Application Account can incorporate Eleonore Stump’s work on atonement to provide a theological development of Catholic teaching on Purgatory which avoids prominent criticisms of the latter
Hypostatic Attention: How Jesus Attends
No full textIn this article, I offer an answer to the question: how does Jesus Christ pay attention? By closely examining the claims of orthodox Christology—especially in the theology of the councils of Chalcedon and Constantinople III—I explore options for conceiving of Jesus’s attention in relation to conciliar claims. I propose a model of Jesus’s attention called Theandric Attention, on which Jesus’s way of attending is unique
