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Why Reformed Theology? (via Heidelberg Catechism Q. 18)

August 26, 2014 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

I find Christian faith coherent, intellectually rigorous, and deeply soul-satisfying. Why? Probably because I have been fed a hearty diet of Reformed Theology. I did my doctoral dissertation on John Calvin, the Reformed theologian who shaped the tradition more than any other. For a good long while I’ve regularly taught the theological summaries that make up […]

Filed Under: Bible, Heidelberg Catechism, Theology Tagged With: Anselm, Athanasius, Atonement, Christology, heidelberg catechism, Reformed Theology

3 Reasons You and I Need God to Go to Bat for Us

January 29, 2014 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

In several posts on the Trinity I have talked about the Christian claim that Jesus, born of Mary, is really truly God — the eternal Second Person of the Trinity walking among us. In our time is that not a very strange claim? With our current mish-mosh of scientific and post-modern assumptions, will people be able […]

Filed Under: Heidelberg Catechism, Theology Tagged With: Christ's human nature, Christology, heidelberg catechism, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Mediator

Who Do You Say He Is? Christ the Mediator

January 23, 2014 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

One of the most important questions Jesus ever asked was “But who do you say that I am?” In Matthew, Mark and Luke this is his follow-up after asking his disciples what the crowds said about him. Everyone who tries to figure out what to do about Christianity has to ask this same question. We […]

Filed Under: Heidelberg Catechism, Theology Tagged With: Christ Pantokrator, Christianity, Christology, God Jesus, heidelberg catechism, Jesus, Trinity, Who do you say that I am?

The Window Into My Soul

February 13, 2013 by Gary Neal Hansen 2 Comments

In college I had a lab job doing darkroom work, developing photographs taken by microscopes. The most fascinating were taken through electron microscopes — they revealed the inner structures you could never see from the surface.  What looks into our faith like an electron microscope? “Tell me how it stands with your Christology,” says Karl […]

Filed Under: Theology Tagged With: Christology, Person of Christ, Work of Christ

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