tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7133337679802093018.post7180537338871280068..comments2023-12-30T06:49:48.543-06:00Comments on Ancient Evangelical Future: What's the Fuss About Recapitulation Theology?David Neffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07885526638338163556noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7133337679802093018.post-84692254255144820362023-12-30T06:49:48.543-06:002023-12-30T06:49:48.543-06:00St. Irenaeus of Smyrna was a disciple of Polycarp,...St. Irenaeus of Smyrna was a disciple of Polycarp, who was a disciple of St. John the Evangelist. He became a missionary and was appointed as 'episcopoi' / 'overseer' of Lyons in ancient Gaul (modern day France). He is the church's first biblical theologian circa 110 A. D., just fifteen hears after the death of St. John the Evangelist on the island of Patmos. He not only is the promulgator of 'recapitulation theology', he is the first to state the formula of the 'graced exchange' - 'He became what we are, so that we could become what He is' / 'The Son of God became a son of Man, so that the sons of men could become the sons of God'. His two most famous works are his defense of the Faith against the Gnostic heretics (Adversus Heraesis', and his presentation of the teaching of the Apostles, 'Apostolic Teaching'. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7133337679802093018.post-88722181791421963572013-03-21T15:17:06.490-05:002013-03-21T15:17:06.490-05:00Central to recapitulation theology is the Incarnat...Central to recapitulation theology is the Incarnation, or hypostatic union, wherein divinity (that is, Christ) is united to humanity. The 'reversal and renewal' takes place by an unequal exchange that takes place wherein Christ empties (kenosis) himself of His glory (that is, humbles Himself to become man) in order than humanity, in Him, may participate in His divinity. II Corinthians 8:9 says, "For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that being rich he became poor for your sakes: that through his poverty you might be rich." (cf. Phil. 2: 6-8, Heb. 2:9). St. Irenaeus said, "He recapitulated in Himself the long history of men, 'summing us up' and giving us salvation, that we might receive again in Christ Jesus what we have lost in Adam, that is the image and likeness of God." Adversus Haereses iv, 38, ii. St. Cyril of Alexandria in his Commentary on the Gospel of John says, "Therefore his only-begotten Word has become a partaker of flesh and blood (Heb. 2:14), that is, he has become man, though being Life by nature, and begotten of the Life that is by nature, that is, of God the Father, so that, having united Himself with the flesh which perishes according to the law of its own nature...he might restore it to his own life and render it through himself a partaker of God the Father...And he wears our nature, refashioning it to his own life. And he himself is also in us, for we have all become partakers of him, and have him in ourselves through the Spirit. For this reason we have become "partakers of the divine nature (II Peter 1:4), and are reckoned as sons, and so too have in ourselves the Father himself through the Son."Michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7133337679802093018.post-38392335338499544702012-03-27T01:18:33.317-05:002012-03-27T01:18:33.317-05:00Recapitulation theology is central in Eastern Orth...Recapitulation theology is central in Eastern Orthodox theology. Look at the writings of St Symeon the New Theologian, The Ethical Discourses, Vol. 1.Fr John McMonaglenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7133337679802093018.post-27886987499692459442010-12-02T08:40:04.112-06:002010-12-02T08:40:04.112-06:00Very helpful recapitulation of... recapitulation! ...Very helpful recapitulation of... recapitulation! <br /><br />It can be frustrating, though, in dealing with a story that is so Big and stretches Back so far - it can be difficult to see developments today that flow out of this recapitulation work of Jesus. The transformation we see today seems so Small and our life is so Brief, it takes faith to trust that our lives are being swept up in the story of recapitulation.Tim Hallmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14377895873260357598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7133337679802093018.post-62065563036139597672009-07-29T15:01:56.513-05:002009-07-29T15:01:56.513-05:00Two years after this recapitulation article was or...Two years after this recapitulation article was originally posted. I must say, this was terrific.<br /><br />Thanks Admin, for grooving the recap with Penal Substitutionary Atonement (PSA). I personally feel like the flaw in the notion of PSA is that it is viewed as being essentially a legal transaction, rather than as essentially a rhetorical demonstration. God, after all, did not <i>have</i> to be satisfied, it was God who DID the satisfying. Through FORGIVENESS he made us whole, not through a bizarrely diverted outpouring of VENGEANCE upon himself-in-flesh. <br /><br />I think a primary assumption of biblical exegesis should be that God is sane, not crazy. Recapitulation theology wonderfully reintegrates sanity into soteriology.Joe Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15385756442506439825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7133337679802093018.post-25493341150885932822007-11-05T15:21:00.000-06:002007-11-05T15:21:00.000-06:00Recapitulation shouldn't be seen so much as a theo...Recapitulation shouldn't be seen so much as a <I>theory</I> of how the atonement is transacted, but rather the <I>telos point</I> or <I>raison d'etre</I> for Chrit's Atonement. It's not <I>penal substitution</I> <B>or</B> <I>recapitulation</I> it's both working hand in hand.<BR/><BR/>ReformationUCC.orgChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02721964362910353975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7133337679802093018.post-78575349121322131402007-11-01T14:08:00.000-05:002007-11-01T14:08:00.000-05:00It might be worth mentioning for those who don't k...It might be worth mentioning for those who don't know that the recapitulation theme is of primary importance to Eastern Orthodox theology and spirituality.Joel Scandretthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17463766480295968603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7133337679802093018.post-61884173609266587692007-10-02T12:24:00.000-05:002007-10-02T12:24:00.000-05:00i too remember bob's musings about recapitulation....i too remember bob's musings about recapitulation. what i have found is that more than just impressing my friends by using big words, this stuff PREACHES! that in Christ, all that has been destroyed by sin is made new again! this is where true victory is found in marriages, in addiction, in disease. not in theology of posperity, but that in Christ, we are made whole again in part, looking forward to that day when we shall be made whole face to face. this is more than just high-fa-lutin' theology, this is power for the every day lives of every Chrisitian suffering under the curse of this world.the chaplainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15693728535748610104noreply@blogger.com