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Monthly Archives: August 2009
On the Incarnation of the Word 7 – Repentance Is Not Enough
This phrase leaps out at me every time I read this section of Athanasius’ writing. nor, secondly, does repentance call men back from what is their nature—it merely stays them from acts of sin. God can and does call man to repentance. Nobody argues that point. However, I have some sense that repentance may often [...]
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zpizza
After skating at our favorite skating rink, my daughter and I decided to try the new zpizza in Round Rock. They use quality, organic ingredients and, most importantly from my perspective, offer the option of a gluten free pizza crust! As the employee who greeted us was explaining how to order for our first visit, [...]
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Alamo Village & Inglorious Basterds
One of the joys of living in Austin has been the opportunity to experience the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema for years. We first visited Alamo Village not too long after it opened when the original downtown location and it were the only Alamo Drafthouse cinemas to be found. Recent years have seen a lot of growth [...]
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On the Incarnation of the Word 6 – God’s Goodness
God’s goodness is the phrase I hear echoing in this chapter of Athanasius’ treatise. For it were not worthy of God’s goodness that the things He had made should waste away, because of the deceit practised on men by the devil. Especially it was unseemly to the last degree that God’s handicraft among men should [...]
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On the Incarnation of the Word 5 – God Gives Life, Man Seeks the Corruption of Death
In the next chapter, Athanasius emphasize that God not only created us from nothing, but freely gives us life. For God has not only made us out of nothing; but He gave us freely, by the Grace of the Word, a life in correspondence with God. … “God made man for incorruption, and as an [...]
On the Incarnation of the Word 4 – Intimately Connected With Our Creation
In this next section of Athanasius’ treatise, we begin to encounter an idea that seems to have largely been lost in modern, Western Christianity. Namely, it is the central idea that it is entirely within God that we live and move and have our being. God is. Evil is not. For transgression of the commandment [...]
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On the Incarnation of the Word 3 – Man in the Image of God
In the third section of his treatise, Athanasius emphasizes that God created everything through the Word and that he does not begrudge existence to any of it. That’s important to always keep in mind. Yes, God created and sustains everything from moment to moment. But that contingency is not a matter of concern. The uncreated [...]
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On the Incarnation of the Word 2 – Erroneous Views of Creation Rejected
In the next section, Athanasius briefly considers and rejects erroneous views of Creation. Two examples follow that always catch my eye. For some say that all things have come into being of themselves, and in a chance fashion; as, for example, the Epicureans, who tell us in their self-contempt, that universal providence does not exist, [...]
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On the Incarnation of the Word 1 – Creation and Renewal
There are few works to which I return time and again as I do with Athanasius’ classic, On the Incarnation of the Word. I think sometimes Christians seem to forget just how strange a story the Incarnation actually is or how central it is to our faith. In this series I will reflect on each [...]
On the Incarnation of the Word 8 – The Word Became Flesh