A Critique of Karl Barth’s Fallen Christ
RAFAEL NOGUEIRA BELLO
studies in historical and systematic theology
Sinless Flesh: A Critique of Karl Barth’s Fallen Christ
Studies in Historical and Systematic Theology
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What Is a Human Nature? A Chalcedonian-Thomistic Account
Grace of Union and Habitual Grace
Post-Reformed Theology of Original Sin
Method: Dogmatics And Retrieval
Scholarly Contributions, Justification, and the Nature of This Study
What Do These Terms Mean? Assumption and Fallen/Unfallen: A Tentative Clarification Approach
2 Karl Barth’s Theology of the Incarnation and Christ’s Flesh
Early Stages of Argumentation: Flesh and Identity
Excursus: Gleanings from the History of the Church in Church Dogmatics
Sinlessness in Church Dogmatics
Communicatio Gratiarum and the Sinlessness of the Son
Some Musings on the Doctrine of Original Sin and Representation
3 T. F. Torrance and the Mediation of Salvation
The Latin Heresy and Incarnation
Theosis as Union: Torrance’s Mechanism and a Brief Excursus on Reformed Theosis
John Clark and Marcus Peter Johnson
Inseparable Operations and the Incarnation: Some Necessary Scholastic Distinctions
Invisible and Visible Missions
Fallenness and the Operations of the Trinity
Concluding Thoughts on Inseparable Operations and the Non-Assumptus
5 Grace of Union and Habitual Grace
The Perennial Debate of Grace vs. Nature and Its Relationship to the Incarnation of the Son
Herman Bavinck and His Interpreters on Grace and Nature
The Fallen Christ and Thomistic Concepts of Grace
Concluding Thoughts on Grace of Union, Habitual Grace, and the Non-Assumptus
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About Sinless Flesh: A Critique of Karl Barth’s Fallen ChristDid Christ assume a fallen human nature? “What is not assumed is not healed.” So goes the Chalcedonian maxim articulated by Gregory of Nazianzus regarding the nature and extent of Christ’s work in assuming a human nature. But what is the nature of that assumption? If Christ is to stand in solidarity with us, must he have assumed not merely a human nature, but specifically a fallen human nature? In Sinless Flesh: A Critique of Karl Barth’s Fallen Christ, Rafael Nogueira Bello argues against the assertion made by Karl Barth, T. F. Torrance, and those who follow them that Christ assumed a fallen nature. Through retrieval of patristic, medieval, and Reformed orthodox theologians, Bello argues that a proper understanding of human nature, trinitarian inseparable operations, and the habitual grace-grace of union distinction leads to the conclusion that the assertion that Christ assumed a fallen human nature is at odds with faithful theological and historical understandings of the incarnation. |
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