Stimulus: The New Zealand Journal of Christian Thought and Practice, 2013
Even the iconoclasts among us will have seen on statues of the risen Jesus the marks in his hands... more Even the iconoclasts among us will have seen on statues of the risen Jesus the marks in his hands, his feet, and, if a gap in his glorious garments allows it, his side. The 'glorified wounds' have become such a common-place of Christian art that, most of the time, we barely even notice them. And yet, surely they must represent one of the strangest details of the Gospel testimony. Jesus has come back to life, but with death inscribed in his immortal flesh. He has definitively conquered evil, yet certain signs of the horror of Golgotha remain. He has ushered in a new era of hope for his disciples, though something of the past still clings to him. How are we to understand these juxtapositions of life with death, good with evil, and the new with the old?
Forgiveness: Philosophy, Psychology and the Arts, 2013
... There is no desire to be reconciled with this 'freak'. A deficiency can be forgiven... more ... There is no desire to be reconciled with this 'freak'. A deficiency can be forgiven, but what is radically evil has to be left well alone, since there is no redeeming what is rotten to the core.16 ... Terence Irwin, (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1999), 1. ...
Since its publication in 1986, Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Dare We Hope “That All Men Be Saved”? has... more Since its publication in 1986, Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Dare We Hope “That All Men Be Saved”? has been the object of considerable debate and controversy.1 This has been re-ignited with the appearance of Ralph Martin’s “Will Many Be Saved?” in 2012. Martin joins the chorus of a number of orthodox theologians who criticize Balthasar for espousing a position, which, while claiming to differ essentially from the universalist doctrine of apocatastasis, is practically indistinguishable from it. This article seeks to clarify Balthasar’s overall position2 by drawing attention to its dynamic character. This dynamism is, perhaps, not made explicit by Balthasar
Stimulus: The New Zealand Journal of Christian Thought and Practice, 2013
Even the iconoclasts among us will have seen on statues of the risen Jesus the marks in his hands... more Even the iconoclasts among us will have seen on statues of the risen Jesus the marks in his hands, his feet, and, if a gap in his glorious garments allows it, his side. The 'glorified wounds' have become such a common-place of Christian art that, most of the time, we barely even notice them. And yet, surely they must represent one of the strangest details of the Gospel testimony. Jesus has come back to life, but with death inscribed in his immortal flesh. He has definitively conquered evil, yet certain signs of the horror of Golgotha remain. He has ushered in a new era of hope for his disciples, though something of the past still clings to him. How are we to understand these juxtapositions of life with death, good with evil, and the new with the old?
Forgiveness: Philosophy, Psychology and the Arts, 2013
... There is no desire to be reconciled with this 'freak'. A deficiency can be forgiven... more ... There is no desire to be reconciled with this 'freak'. A deficiency can be forgiven, but what is radically evil has to be left well alone, since there is no redeeming what is rotten to the core.16 ... Terence Irwin, (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1999), 1. ...
Since its publication in 1986, Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Dare We Hope “That All Men Be Saved”? has... more Since its publication in 1986, Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Dare We Hope “That All Men Be Saved”? has been the object of considerable debate and controversy.1 This has been re-ignited with the appearance of Ralph Martin’s “Will Many Be Saved?” in 2012. Martin joins the chorus of a number of orthodox theologians who criticize Balthasar for espousing a position, which, while claiming to differ essentially from the universalist doctrine of apocatastasis, is practically indistinguishable from it. This article seeks to clarify Balthasar’s overall position2 by drawing attention to its dynamic character. This dynamism is, perhaps, not made explicit by Balthasar
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