Religious vs. Spiritual
Norris Chumley, a friend of mine, has an article in the Huffington Post on the Pew Forum, "religious," "spiritual," and the important distinctions between them. Check it out here.
Quirky Christology: Theophilus of Antioch and the Logos' Preincarnate Peformance
For my current project, which focuses on how early Christians understood Moses' visions, I have been delving much into Second and Third Century Christian sources. During the past week, I have been playing a lot with Theophilus of Antioch with his treatise/letter/apology to Autolycus. Theophilus, let's say, has a fairly unique Christology in many ways. Much of this was explicitly rejected by his rough contemporary Irenaeus and has been discussed at length by modern scholars. But there is one aspect of his Christology that has been largely ignored and is, well, quirky. ὁ μὲν θεὸς καὶ πατὴρ τῶν ὅλων ἀχώρητὸς ἐστιν καὶ ἐν τόπῳ οὐχ εὑρίσκεται· οὐ γὰρ ἐστιν τόπος καταπαύσεως αὐτοῦ. ὁ δὲ Λόγος αὐτοῦ, δι᾽οὗ τὰ πάντα πεποίκηκεν, δύναμισ ὤν καὶ σοφία αὐτοῦ, ἀναλαμβάνων τὀ πρόσωπον τοῦ πατρὸς καὶ κυρίου τῶν ὅλων, οὗτος παρεγίνετο εἰς τὸν παράδεισον ἐν προσώπῳ τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ ὁμίλει τῷ Ἀδάμ. Καὶ γὰρ αὐτὴ ἡ θεία γραφὴ διδάσκει ἡμᾶς τὸν Ἀδὰμ λέγοντα τῆς φωνῆς...
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