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    My three reviews of controversial theology books

    On Amazon I have written reviews of three controversial theology books that are suitable for discussion: All Things Come into Being Through Him: A Christology of Creation (2023) by David O. Brown (Advocates a return to deism in much improved form.) A Brief Systematic Theology of the Symbol...
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    Review of "The distancing of God: the ambiguity of the symbol" (1990) by Bernard Cooke

    Although the book has some good insights to share, it left me confused. Cooke’s argument is that theology has contributed to a distancing of God in that a “Christology from above” increasingly came to characterize Christian theology. While Christianity began with a sense of sacrality attached to...
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    Christians who are still under the law of sin

    It is strange that so many Christians have this fixation on sinful acts, especially bodily sin, considering that our sins are forgiven through faith in Jesus Christ. We are forgiven as long as we remain aware of our sinful nature, knowing that we are bound to go wrong now and then. Ruth Page...
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    The Holy Spirit, as the bond between Father and Son, must Himself have a separate bond with either 'person', leading to an eternal regress

    The Holy Spirit is conceived as an independent third 'person' of the Trinity. He is the 'bond' between the Father and the Son (Epiphanius). This leads to a logical problem, in view of the fact that it requires yet another bond between the Holy Spirit Himself and the Father and the Son...
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    Review of Tollefsen: "Activity and participation in late antique and early Christian thought"

    In his book Activity and participation in late antique and early Christian thought (2012) Torstein Theodor Tollefsen tries to make sense of some basic ideas of Eastern Christian thinking, and he almost succeeds. He makes an excellent scholarly analysis of the many strange concepts, such as logoi...
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    Review of "Paul and the Law" (1987) by Heikki Räisänen

    Heikki Räisänen (Paul and the Law, 1987) is critical of Paul and what he sees as the many self-contradictions and ambiguities in Paul’s position. Paul sets up the antithesis of faith and works and paradoxically claims that the law is overcome and yet remains valid. Räisänen says that Paul “is...
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    Review of "The mystery and agency of God" (2014), by Frank G. Kirkpatrick

    Hi! I'm new. This is a review of a book I just finished reading: In The mystery and agency of God: divine being and action in the world (2014), Frank G. Kirkpatrick wants to resuscitate our traditional view of God as personal agent operating in the world. Divine agency must be modernized...
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