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- Title: Speaking Like Luther
- Author : Lemm Sadler
- Release Date : January 03, 2015
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 165 KB
Description
Within three centuries of his resurrection, Jesus of Nazareth
was presented to the world as incarnation of the Second
Person of a triune Godhead. The great debate at Nicaea
sought to resolve the issue of how the death of Christ could be effective
for the sins of the whole world. The Alexandrians and Romans infused
Christ with the qualities of a Greek deity, and argued that Christ had
literally come down from his heavenly throne and appeared among
mortals as a man, yet died as a deity for mankind. The pragmatic
Asians, however, believed Christs existence began only with his birth,
and believed that Jesus Christ was a man sent by God to reflect the
nature of God perfectly to others.
The debate-winning Alexandrians explained salvation using Greek
metaphysical notions about the relationship between physical and
spiritual worlds. Speaking Like Luther enters the fray by tackling the
same questions while rejecting metaphysical arguments. In a way, it
gives a voice back to the early Asian bishops. It asks the 21st century
Christian to challenge what Nicaea and the Church Fathers first
believed to be the truth, and to reconsider how it was that Jesus could
save his own nation and offer a universal salvation to all mankind, if
he was something less than a deity.