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? […]
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Why Do We Have To Die? (Heidelberg Catechism Q42)
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 […]
Why Was Christ Buried? (Heidelberg Catechism Q41)
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 […]
Does the Ascension Divide Christ’s Natures? (Heidelberg Catechism Q48)
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 […]
The Paradoxical Presence of Christ (Heidelberg Catechism Q47)
A couple weeks ago I was reflecting on a much-neglected biblical teaching: the ascension of Christ. We may neglect it because there is a conundrum in the ascension: the puzzling, if not outright paradoxical, presence of Christ. Ascension vs. Presence The last scenes of Jesus’ earthly ministry are emphatic about two completely opposite things: Jesus […]
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