Sublime

Leporius evidently borrows Augustine’s own favoured phrasing when he asserts that there is one persona in Christ, ‘embracing’ the Word and the individuated humanity; but the unity of this persona resides in the unity of the eternal and unchanging subsistent who is the Word.53

the answer to the questions, ‘Who is now causing and defining the relation of these lives with the Father? Who is acting and speaking in those relations so as to give them their distinctive character?’ is ‘Jesus Christ’.

Bonhoeffer, says Gorman, “recognizes at the end of the day that discipleship is not about imitation or even obedience to an external call or norm. It is about transformation, theosis.” He continues, “What we find in Bonhoeffer is the Eastern Christian tradition of theosis merged with a radical interpretation of discipleship expressed primarily in t

when Paul speaks of being ‘in’ Christ, it is hard to avoid the implication that he sees Jesus as being as much the source of a single community of kinship as Adam or Abraham – the source of a new human kinship (as in Adam) and the source of a specific kinship among those who have received God’s promise (as in Abraham).

Paul creates a transcendental hierarchy. Akiva and rabbinic Judaism create an egalitarian spirituality.

The act of ministry brings forth ontological union at the divine and human level; it is the embodied and lived story of cross to resurrection.

non aliud – ‘not another thing’

because Jesus is uniquely united in esse with the Word, Jesus is Head of the Body which is the Church; because he is Head of the Body, his action as a human agent is not confined in the way that any other human agent’s is, but is the vehicle of the Word’s universal action; and because this is so, it is in relation to him that any and all may find t

Belief in the Incarnation is the belief that the specific concrete and historical agent that is Jesus of Nazareth simply is the act of God the Word in a unique sense, quite distinct from the way in which divine agency is universally the ultimate activator of any and every finite substance.