Unsurprising - 12 March 2010 |
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Tom Weinandy’s Does God Change? is wonderful. Truly wonderful. Yet I was surprised by one comment on Ignatius of Antioch’s defence of the full humanity and deity of Christ against the Docetists. Weinandy finds it “surprising that at such an early date one finds the full divinity and full humanity predicated of the one person of Christ almost in Chalcedonian rigor” (Weinandy, Change, p. xxiii).
Really? Why should this be surprising? Doesn’t the Bible itself teach clearly the full deity and full humanity of Christ? Granted that there is in Ignatius “a lack of [the] theological argumentation” (p. xxiii) one finds in later treatments, why should we be surprised to find an early Christian affirming bluntly what the Bible says plainly?
Posted by Steve Jeffery · Topics: Minister's Blog, Theology