FIRST-PERSON: Christ’s miracles and His prophetic office
Christ’s miracles had prophetic significance to His disciples. This aspect of His prophetic ministry is evident in John 6, which recounts a series of events which reveal that Christ’s very actions serve to fulfill His messianic office. A survey of these accounts demonstrates the prophetic character of Jesus’ incarnation and life. As the Chalcedonian Creed (AD 451) rightly affirms, Jesus is both truly God and truly man; His acts inherently represent God and declare God’s message to the people.
FIRST-PERSON: Nineveh, New Orleans, & the City of Man
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--"Cities do not last. Those built in precarious places collapse. The rest are doomed to decay or suffer humanly induced destruction." That is the assessment of historian Felipe Fernandez Arnesto. He spoke those words with reference to New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, but his historical judgment would well apply to Nineveh, Tyre, Babylon and a host of cities long ago covered with dust.
FIRST-PERSON: Henry leaves a still-unfolding legacy
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--"Everyone has a theology," Carl F. H. Henry wrote. "It may be a very shoddy one, and if it is shoddy, it will rise to haunt one in a crisis of life. It's my conviction that only a theology which has the living God at its center and that is rooted in Christ, the crucified and risen Redeemer, has the intellectual struts to engage the modern secular views effectively."
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Carl Henry, theologian, leaves a still-unfolding legacy
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| Carl F. H. Henry |
Carl Henry, who died in his sleep Dec. 7, devoted his long and illustrious career as a theologian to building and defending the "intellectual struts" of evangelical theology. His death at age 90 closes an important chapter in the history of American evangelicalism -- and raises anew the great questions with which he struggled. Among those questions was one he revisited time and time again: Will evangelicalism remain recognizably evangelical?
