Tag: Irenaeus
John 12:41 makes two claims that together carry the Trinitarian argument: that Isaiah saw Jesus's glory, and that the glory John attributes to Jesus elsewhere in his Gospel is pre-temporal Shekinah possessed παρὰ σοί before creation. Even granting the unitarian referent of Isaiah 52–53, the Servant's glorification read through John 17:5 is restoration of co-possessed eternal glory, not the elevation of a creature.
A Catholic engagement with the published unitarian case for John 12:41. The grammar is granted; the lexical range is granted; and the pre-Nicene chain — Justin, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Origen — is set out from primary sources. The glory Isaiah saw is the glory of the eternal Son, and the glory the rulers refused.
A Catholic and Eastern Orthodox response to Jimmy Akin's Divine Council reading of Genesis 1:26 — from Dei Verbum, the Fathers, the Talmud, and the Targums.
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Theotokos — God-bearer — is not a Marian superlative. It is a Christological entailment. This article traces the title from its biblical spine in Galatians 4:4 and Luke 1, through the Ark of the Covenant typology, Irenaeus's New Eve theology, and the drama of Ephesus (AD 431), to Lumen Gentium's definitive treatment. Every source verified. Every claim grounded.
The Nicene Creed does not demand blind assent. It demands exegetical proof. This article delivers it: complete NA28 Greek morphology of John 10 and the Pauline εἷς corpus, seven Church Fathers from Justin Martyr to Augustine, four Ecumenical Councils, Aquinas, and the Theotokos — all converging on one verdict: consubstantial with the Father.
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