My main series in the blog right now is about understanding the Nicene Creed, not just its history and theology, but also its spirituality. And so, my thoughts have returned quite a bit lately to the relationship among the connected but different concepts of faith, ‘the faith’, and faithfulness. In light of this, today’s Epistle … Continue reading The Law of Faith: A Reflection on Romans 4:13-25
In the last post in this series exploring the history, theology, and spirituality of the Nicene Creed, we turned our attention to Jesus. We saw how, in numerous ways, the Creed reiterates our faith that the man Jesus is fully God, that is to say fully expressing the wholeness of divinity just as the Father does. … Continue reading For Us and for Our Salvation
So far in this series on the Nicene faith, we’ve been taking things very slowly, one phrase at a time. Today, I’ll be taking a bigger bite because the next few lines, while all using unique and nuanced terminology, amount to much the same thing: That Jesus is God with exactly the same quality of … Continue reading … And in one Lord, Jesus Christ …
My current midweek series here on the blog is exploring the theology and spirituality of the Nicene Creed. As it happens, today’s reading from the Old Testament is the creation story from Genesis 1, which happens to tie in perfectly to the next line in the Creed, which affirms that God our Father is the … Continue reading …Maker of Heaven and Earth…
The Bible famously beings with the words, “In the beginning, God.” God is what we call what ‘existed’ before anything existed. This God is the source, cause, and fountain of everything that exists. The other day, we saw how the Creed affirms that this God is ‘one’, not just arithmetically, but as a perfect, whole, … Continue reading …The Father Almighty…
Matthew Root 