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4 Teorieë oor wat op die kruis gebeur.
So jy glo Jesus het vir jou sondes gesterf? Maar hoe het sy kruisdood jou nou juis gered? Vra hierdie vraag vir gelowiges en jy kom vinnig agter dat ons nie almal uit een mond praat nie.
Ons is tans besig met ‘n reeks oor die “Christus Victor”-hipotese. Ek wil graag in die volgende inskrywing hierdie Klassieke perspektief krities evalueer. Maar om dit sinvol te kan doen moet ek na die verskillende versoeningsmodelle verwys wat Christene deur die eeue gehandhaaf het. Om daardie rede onderbreek ek die volgorde van die Christus Victor inskrywings vir ‘n wyle. Jy ken mos Murphy se wette: “Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first”. Continue Reading…
In Reflections on theology	Christus Victor, Crux of Calvary, Double imputation, Finished work of Christ, Justification, Truth, Wrath
Christus Victor (Deel I)
Hoe sal jy reageer as iemand vir jou sê dat die manier waarop ons vandag die lewe en sterwe van Jesus verstaan, nie die manier is waarop die eerste Christene dit geïnterpreteer het nie? Waarskynlik sal jy (soos ek) die persoon afmaak as net nog ‘n godsdienstige kranksinnige.
Maar wat as die persoon wat hierdie beweringe maak, nie versteurd is nie maar ‘n kenner van die vroeë Kerk? Sal jy luister? Dit is die posisie waarin ek myself bevind het, toe my pad met die werk van Gustaf Aulén gekruis het. Ek het sy navorsing verrykend gevind en oordeel dat sy werk ‘n besondere bydrae lewer tot ons verstaan van wie Jesus is en wat Hy kom doen het.
Ek wil daarom graag die werk van Gustaf Aulén met jou deel, en het besluit om vir die volgende 5 Woensdae ‘n kort inskrywing oor sy boek, Christus Victor, te plaas. Kom ons verdeel die reeks aan die hand van 5 K’s:
Deel I Konteks van die “Christus Victor” debat
Deel II Kenmerke van die “Christus Victor” teologie
Deel III Konfrontering met Nuwe Testamentiese tekste
Deel IV Kritiek teen die “Christus Victor” hipotese
Deel V Konklusies oor die “Christus Victor” ideologie.
1.) Konteks van die “Christus Victor” debat.
Gustaf Aulén se navorsing oor die vroeë Kerk, help ons om ‘n voller verstaan te ontwikkel van wie Jesus was en wat Hy kom doen het. In die bestudering van die Christus Victor teologie, sal dit vir jou duidelik word dat ons geneig is om Jesus se versoeningswerk te verskraal tot die uitdelging van ons sondeskuld – terwyl Hy inderdaad méér as net dit kom doen het. Hy het kom verower en het as finale oorwinnaar getriomfeer! Maar voor ons goedskiks by al implikasies hiervan kan uitkom, moet ons eers onsself deeglik van die teologie vergewis.
Die doel van vandag se inskrywing is bloot om die tafel te dek vir wat in die volgende paar weke gaan volg. Jy wil sekerlik ‘n bietjie meer agtergrond hê oor wie en wat bogenoemde konsternasie veroorsaak het, daarom verf ek gou vir jou in breë trekke die hoofgedagtes.
Gustaf Aulén het in 1930 by die universiteit van Uppsala ‘n reeks lesings gegee wat verreikende gevolge gehad het. Hy was op daardie stadium ‘n professor in sistematiese teologie by die universiteit van Lund, en biskop van Strängnäs in die Kerk van Swede.
In sy lesings het hy gevra vir ‘n omvattende herbesinning oor die Kerk se leer oor versoening. Hy het so ver gegaan as om dit wat deur die Kerk geleer is, ‘n “foutiewe vertolking” van die tradisionele konsep oor versoening te noem, en gesê dat die Kerk haarself tans op ‘n “syspoor” binne die dogma van die Christendom bevind. Dit is sterk woorde, en ons sal Continue Reading…
“There is no theodicy for the world except in a theology of the Cross. The only final theodicy is that self-justification of God which was fundamental to his justification of men. No reason of man can justify God in a world like this. He must justify himself, and he did so in the cross of his Son”
P.T. Forsyth, The Justification of God: lectures for wartime on a Christian theodicy.
Forsyth on Theodicy
Posted on July 25, 2013	In Thought 4 Thursday	Theodicy
“Learn to know Christ and him crucified. Learn to sing to him and say “Lord Jesus, you are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not.”
Martin Luther wrote this to a monk in distress about his sins (Letters of Spiritual Counsel, p110)
Posted on July 18, 2013	In Thought 4 Thursday
Prostitution: A moral problem or a real person?
Have a look at this insightful interview with Archbishop Lazar from the Eastern Orthodox Church in Canada. The Eastern Orthodox Church approaches the problem of sin in quite a different manner than the typical Church of the West.
I am convinced this difference is due to the Christus Victor theology. (By the way Aulen argues in his book “Christus Victor“, that Luther also had a Christus Victor understanding of atonement, but that we misinterpreted him due to our strong Latin church tradition. I am currently trying to grasp the full extent of this theology – you will probably see a mini-series on the topic in the near future on my blog. Anyway, I really like the Eastern Orthodox Church’s holistic approach as well as the Archbishop’s comments on science. Enjoy!
In Friday Visuals	Christus Victor, Sin
“When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discouraged, I love and I hate, I feel bad about feeling good, I feel guilty about not feeling guilty. I am trusting and suspicious. I am honest and I still play games. Aristotle said I am a rational animal; I say I am an angel with an incredible capacity for beer. To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side, I learn who I am and what God’s grace means. As Thomas Merton put it, ‘A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God’.”
Manning, Brennan. The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out (p. 25)
Posted on May 23, 2013	In Thought 4 Thursday
Another theologian passes away.
It seems 2013 is not a good year for the Church. Another remarkable theologian has died this month.
Brennan Manning died in April, and I have just learned that Dallas Willard went to be with the Lord this week too.
The first book that I read from Dallas Willard, was “Hearing God. Developing A Conversational Relationship With God“. I immediately fell in love with the sensitive way he addresses complexities. I will always remember him for his passion for discipleship. He wrote books like “The Divine Conspiracy. Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In Christ.”, “Renovation Of The Heart. Putting On The Character Of Christ“. and “The Spirit Of The Disciplines. Understanding How God Changes Lives“.
The following quote comes from his book “The Great Omission. Reclaiming Jesus’ essential teachings on discipleship”
R.I.P. man of God.
In Reflections on theology	Dallas Willard, Discipleship, Grace