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Daily Archives: February 17, 2010
T. F. Torrance on the meaning of Christ’s humanity
Posted by Halden
on February 17, 2010
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Kent has a review of the new book of Torrance’s, Incarnation. Here’s one of the segments he quotes from the book:
The stark actuality of Christ’s humanity, his flesh and blood and bone, guarantees to us that we have God among us. If that humanity were in any sense unreal, God would be unreal for us in him. The full measure of Christ’s humanity is the full measure of God’s reality for us, God’s actuality to us, in fact the measure of God’s love for us. If Christ is not man, then God has not reached us, but has stopped short of our humanity – then God does not love us to the uttermost, for his love has stopped short of coming all the way to where we are, and becoming one of us in order to save us. But Christ’s humanity means that God’s love is now flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone, really one of us and with us. (p. 185)
How to be a complete moron about Lent
Posted by Halden
on February 17, 2010
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Just follow Jim West’s Nadab’s advice.
T. F. Torrance on justification and orthodoxy
Posted by Halden
on February 17, 2010
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WTM has a solid quote from T. F. Torrance on justification and its relation to orthodoxy:
Justification is God’s word of truth and its revelation is truth. This word justification does not have to do simply with righteous living but with righteous understanding, for righteousness is God’s right or truth as well as his holiness and involves knowing as well as doing, and thus to do righteousness is the same as to do truth. (Compare Jesus’ statement, ‘you will know the truth and the truth will make you free.’) The revelation of righteousness is the word that puts us in the truth and as such tells us that we are in un-truth. Justification says “let God be true, but every man a liar’, as Paul puts it with reference to Psalm 51. This word of justification which puts us in the truth denies all self-justification and denominates it lying, or un-truth. If God’s justification of the ungodly means that no one can boast of their own righteousness, then it also means that no one dares to boast of their own orthodoxy, for to claim orthodoxy is to claim to be in the right, to be in the truth; it is a boasting of the right, whereas in point of fact justification by putting us in the truth, reveals that we are in the wrong, in un-truth.
Thomas F. Torrance, Atonement: The Person and Work of Christ, Robert T. walker, ed. (InterVarsity, 2009), 105.
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