by Jean Barbey | Jun 23, 2024 | Christianity, Prolegomena, Reformation, Scripture
What place does the Bible have in the Christian faith? Historic Protestantism has considered it to be God’s written revelation, and therefore the only ultimate standard for faith, Christian life and the organisation of the church. 1 Sola Scriptura In...
by Jean Barbey | Sep 27, 2023 | Reformation, Soteriology
Scripture proclaims the omniscience and omnipotence of God, who therefore knows in advance who will believe in Jesus Christ to receive the salvation acquired by his death on the Cross. But do the ‘saints’ believe because God has chosen them, or has God...
by Jean Barbey | Jul 24, 2023 | Christology, Historical theology
Where does the idea that Jesus is the “incarnation of God” come from? A look at some elements of ancient theology Introduction When you attend a church, whatever its denomination, you don’t often wonder about the origin of the statements it professes...
by Jean Barbey | Jan 1, 2023 | Pneumatology, Reformation, Soteriology
The Zwinglian conception of Christian salvation is linked to a form of humanist universalism of the Spirit that contrasts with the usual conceptions of the Reformation, but which echoes a certain reading of the epistle to the Romans. Here are a few points of reference...
by Jean Barbey | Aug 19, 2022 | Ancient times, Christology, Theology proper
The doctrine of the trinity or tri-unity is emblematic of Christian theology, and is one of the elements of the tradition largely taken over from the Protestant Reformation. Here we present biblical, conceptual and historical elements that enable us to reconstruct a...
by Jean Barbey | Apr 30, 2022 | Catholicism, Christology, Historical theology
Introduction The Roman Catholic Church has consecrated Mary as the “Mother of God”, which can cause a certain amount of embarrassment from a Protestant perspective, often reluctant to attribute to Mary what is not appropriate for a “mere...
