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Anselm held that Christ had infinitely honored God through his life and death and that Christ could repay what humanity owed God, thus satisfying the offence to God's honor and doing away with the need for punishment. When Anselm proposed the satisfaction view, it was immediately criticized by Peter Abelard.
In Calvin's view humans are not capable of understanding God in his own right, and can only begin to know God through Christ. [12] In Institutes of the Christian Religion (II.xv) Calvin was critical of those who know Christ "in name only", e.g. those who simply teach that Christ is the Redeemer without understanding or teaching how he redeems.
Through exegesis and a literary and philosophical approach to Scripture, Fretheim draws the elusive God of the Old Testament close. Indeed, the author seeks to balance the common images of God as wrathful judge or cold lawgiver with an image of God in relationship with humanity.
Christ healing the paralytic at Capernaum by Bernhard Rode 1780. Jesus heals the paralytic at Capernaum ( Galway City Museum , Ireland) Jesus heals the man with palsy by Alexandre Bida (1875) Healing the paralytic at Capernaum is one of the miracles of Jesus in the synoptic Gospels ( Matthew 9:1 – 8 , Mark 2 :1–12, and Luke 5:17–26).
Christ is risen! Christ is risen indeed! These are the words of great news for today. Out of the sacred word in scripture, today Christians recall that the tomb is empty, the burial clothes are ...
Pope John Paul II stated, "Each man, in his sufferings, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ". [2] (cf. Colossians 1:24) Like an indulgence, redemptive suffering does not gain the individual forgiveness for their sin; forgiveness results from God's grace, freely given through Christ, which cannot be earned. (see Romans ...
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