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On "Faith in God and Christ"

August 18, 2025 Mark Brians

p/c Paul Zoetemeijer via unsplash

In reflecting on the first two of The 39 Articles of Religion, Oliver O’Donovan notes the curious way in which the biblical and creedal claims about Jesus offend our contemporary sensibilities. “Curiously” it is not the sheer statement that Jesus was divine or that God was in Christ or anything like that —many people are willing to admit as much (I remember watching a lecture in which Gregory Nagy referred to the historical transmission of the works of Homer as “divine” so its a fairly wide-ranging term). What offends the modern mind is “[t]he statement of Christ’s pre-existence as the eternal Word of the Father” (20). O’Donovan adds that “other difficulties” about Christology “appear no more than symptomatic.”

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Tags 39 Articles, Oliver O'Donovan, Theology, Divnity, Jesus

Theopolis Travelogue

July 29, 2024 Mark Brians

Sunday 7/14/24

I depart Olivet Baptist Church during the chanting of the Creed (what a way to go out! I’m putting that in my notes for a good death: I’d like the Creed to be chanted over me as I lay dying) and head to the airport….

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Tags Missive, Travelogue, Birmingham, Alabama, Theopolis, Fellows Program, Theology

There are no donut trees in the Garden of Eden

February 19, 2024 Mark Brians

p/c rodlong vis unsplash

“What does he mean that there are no donut trees in the Garden of Eden?”

Simply, it means just that. There are no donut trees in the Garden of Eden, just as there will be no bourbon-bushes in heaven, nor jewelry-shrubs in the Resurrection. It points to the fact that God created a world with a potential for further creation. It points further to the fact that when God created Adam and Eve, He created them in His Image, and that a part of that Image is being a little creator —with a lower case “c”— like Him.

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Tags Donuts, Garden of Eden, James B. Jordan, Theopolis, Making, Creation, sub-creation, Tolkien, Theology, Lent, Wilderness
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