May 15, 2023
I have now read the fifth of twelve books suggested by FB friends. This one was recommended by Michael Asbell This is my summary. David Moffitt, Rethinking the Atonement: New Perspectives on Jesus’s Death, Resurrection, and Ascension (Grand Rapids: BakerAcademic, 2022). While the term “atonement” is most often used to describe the cross of Jesus […]
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Theology, Uncategorized | Tagged: Atonement, Blood of Christ, Christology, Cross, Death of Christ, Hebrews, Holy of Holies, Priest, Reconciliation, Resurrection, Suffering |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
March 8, 2023
If you only listen to one in this series, listen to this one! Texts: Mark 15:33-37; Matthew 28:5-10 Days 50-51 in Around the Bible in Eighty Days. Death and Resurrection. This is the pinnacle of the gospel story. The Messiah is victorious in both death and resurrection. In death, the Messiah is obedient to death, […]
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Biblical Texts, Theodrama | Tagged: Atonement, Cross, Crucifixion, Cry of Dereliction, Psalm 22:1, Resurrection, Victory |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
August 10, 2015
Because Christ also suffered… If one suffers for “doing good” as an expression of the will of God, Peter writes, it better to suffer for that than suffering for doing evil (1 Peter 2:17). Why is that? Because Christ also suffered… The Christ Narrative—the story of God in which Christ suffers for sins—is the reason […]
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Biblical Texts, Theology | Tagged: 1 Peter 3:18-22, Ascension, Atonement, Baptism, Christology, Death of Jesus, Enthronement, Noah, Resurrection |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
May 21, 2009
[Note: I am attempting to keep these SBD installments under 2000 words each, but that is–of course–quite inadequate for the topics covered. Consequently, these contributions are more programmatic than they are explanatory or defenses of the positions stated. You may access the whole series at my Serial page.] Jesus accomplishes the divine mission to make […]
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Theology | Tagged: Atonement, Christology, Death, Gospel, Incarnation, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Kingdom of God, Resurrection, Soteriology' |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
December 22, 2008
Recently a researcher in Europe asked for a copy of my article The Righteousness of Saving Faith: Arminian Versus Remonstrant Grace (published in Evangelical Journal in 1991) to assist his investigation of Arminianism. It gave me the opportunity to dig it up and put it on my website. The article is based on my Ph.D. […]
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Church History, Stone-Campbell | Tagged: Arminianism, Arminius, Atonement, Calvinism, Churches of Christ, Faith, Guy N. Woods, Justification, K. C. Moser, Limborch, Merit, R. C. Bell, Remonstrant Brotherhood, Stone-Campbell |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
December 16, 2008
The annual season we know as Christmas is a time when most people remember the stories of Jesus’ birth. The media is full of movies, articles and advertisements, which remind us of those stories. There are good stories — Joseph & Mary, Bethlehem, “no room at the inn” which is traditionally badly interpreted as inhospitality […]
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Theology | Tagged: Atonement, Christmas, Christology, Empathy, Humility, Incarnation, Jesus, Presence |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks