Reading Balthasar on Holy Saturday
For this day of Holy Saturday, between Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday, I turned to a philosophical-theological meditative study by Juan M. Sara on the biblical motif, reflected in the Apostle's Creed, on the descent of the Lord Jesus Christ in his final step of abnegation into hell. Crucified, dead, and buried, Jesus Christ then descended into hell.
Of late, this blog has had much to do with the current controversy among Evangelicals on the book by pastor Rob Bell, Love Wins - a book about Heaven, Hell, and the fate of every person who ever lived (HarperOne publishers, released for sale March 2011).
This blog previously referred to how leading evangelical theologian, Richard Mouw, president of Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California, refused to anathematize Rob Bell, a Fuller graduate. I referred also to the pioneer of biblical soteriological universalism, Rev. Neal Punt, a Christian Reformed pastor and theologian who was put on trial in the local council of his denomination, the CRC's Chicago Classis (as they call it), in 1985. Pastor Punt underwent serious lengthy interrogation, he answered and as well he held the classis accountable for not removing dissent when it is a faithful possible interpretation of Scripture. Punt did not remove the doctrine of God's wrath from our Reformed and reformational theology (as any such removal woud, among other things in faithful Christian doctrine, also have removed the Son's free entry into that wrath in crucifixion, death, and burial). After Christ's crucifixion, death, burial, and (I woud say, in accord with the Apostle's Creed) descent into hell (descensus ad inferno) which brings at the extreme depth of descent the still point where the the call to God by that dead descent depth brings the dawn of hope and the reversal of movement, from hell back to God on earth, the resurrection. The culminating descent, according to Roman Catholic philosophical-theologian, Hans Ur von Balthasar, is part of the Redemption of Humanity and your own salvation with our species.
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Of late, this blog has had much to do with the current controversy among Evangelicals on the book by pastor Rob Bell, Love Wins - a book about Heaven, Hell, and the fate of every person who ever lived (HarperOne publishers, released for sale March 2011).
This blog previously referred to how leading evangelical theologian, Richard Mouw, president of Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California, refused to anathematize Rob Bell, a Fuller graduate. I referred also to the pioneer of biblical soteriological universalism, Rev. Neal Punt, a Christian Reformed pastor and theologian who was put on trial in the local council of his denomination, the CRC's Chicago Classis (as they call it), in 1985. Pastor Punt underwent serious lengthy interrogation, he answered and as well he held the classis accountable for not removing dissent when it is a faithful possible interpretation of Scripture. Punt did not remove the doctrine of God's wrath from our Reformed and reformational theology (as any such removal woud, among other things in faithful Christian doctrine, also have removed the Son's free entry into that wrath in crucifixion, death, and burial). After Christ's crucifixion, death, burial, and (I woud say, in accord with the Apostle's Creed) descent into hell (descensus ad inferno) which brings at the extreme depth of descent the still point where the the call to God by that dead descent depth brings the dawn of hope and the reversal of movement, from hell back to God on earth, the resurrection. The culminating descent, according to Roman Catholic philosophical-theologian, Hans Ur von Balthasar, is part of the Redemption of Humanity and your own salvation with our species.
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