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Jesus Christ’s New Job Description (Heidelberg Catechism Q51)

October 26, 2016 by Gary Neal Hansen 2 Comments

What is Jesus Christ's New Job Description?

The Heidelberg Catechism (my favorite 450 year old Reformed summary of biblical Christianity, and a topic I’ve been blogging on since 2013) spends 23 questions painstakingly exploring issues that are not especially pressing to today’s Christians: They explain the Apostles’ Creed line by line. That’s good: the Creed is a classic summary of the important events leading to […]

Filed Under: Bible, Heidelberg Catechism, Theology Tagged With: for us, Jesus Christ's New Job Description, pro nobis, Usefulness of doctrine

Why is Christ Seated at the Right Hand of God? (Heidelberg Catechism Q50)

October 19, 2016 by Gary Neal Hansen 13 Comments

seated at the right hand of God

Why “Seated at the Right Hand of God”? I’ve been back to blogging on the Heidelberg Catechism of late. Recently I worked through what these 16th-century Reformed theologians thought about the Ascension. In their line by line commentary on the Apostles’ Creed they took each obvious and not-so obvious issue in turn: Q46: What does Christ’s Ascension into heaven mean? […]

Filed Under: Heidelberg Catechism, Theology Tagged With: Christianity as a Second Language, heidelberg catechism, Question 50, Seated at the Right Hand of God, Session of Christ

Why Do We Have To Die? (Heidelberg Catechism Q42)

October 12, 2016 by Gary Neal Hansen 9 Comments

Why do we have to die?

Why do we have to die? Most human beings have asked the question. It cuts deep when you are facing a loss, or facing your own mortality. Or when you are a kid, trying to figure out the basics. Why do we have to die? The Heidelberg Catechism (that globally and historically popular, but locally […]

Filed Under: Heidelberg Catechism, Theology Tagged With: Death, heidelberg catechism, Question 42, Why do we have to die?

Why Was Christ Buried? (Heidelberg Catechism Q41)

September 28, 2016 by Gary Neal Hansen 5 Comments

From Question 26 to Question 58, the Heidelberg Catechism explains the Apostles’ Creed line by line. (If you are new here, the Heidelberg Catechism is a widely-used and much-loved Reformed summary of biblical Christian teaching that I’ve been blogging on since its 450th anniversary in 2013.) Some lines get explored across a few questions. Some take […]

Filed Under: Heidelberg Catechism, Theology Tagged With: Burial of Christ, Heidelberg Catechism 46

Does the Ascension Divide Christ’s Natures? (Heidelberg Catechism Q48)

August 31, 2016 by Gary Neal Hansen 4 Comments

Questions You May Not Have Thought Of People often think theologians are busy thinking up answers to questions that people don’t really care about. I bet you’ve heard that, in the Middle Ages, scholastic theologians spent their time debating how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. People believe this is true. It is our stereotype […]

Filed Under: Bible, Church Year, Heidelberg Catechism Tagged With: Ascension, Chalcedonian Definition, heidelberg catechism, Question 48

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