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Автор: Jack D. Kilcrease
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to which the Reformed take strong exception. Also in contention is the genus majestaticum, the Lutheran belief that the human nature shares in all of the divine attributes. Since Christ is not two persons, but one divine person, the human nature is anhypostasis, that is, the man Jesus does not have a separate personality. This doctrine takes on meaning in the face of the critical biblical studies in their quests for the historical Jesus that ignore his claims to deity. Christ’s full possession of who and what God is including his righteousness does not allow for either the Catholic and or the Reformed concepts of grace as a substance that can be quantitatively distributed. In hearing and listening to the narrative, believers are given all of what Christ is and has done. Grace, like justification, is declared. Kilcrease understands the role of Jesus as prophet, priest, and king as reflecting God’s Trinitarian existence, an item not previously found in theology.

      Since Christian theology is Christology, ideally any Christian dogmatics, especially one that offers itself as Lutheran, also should be thoroughly christological. In engaging Catholic and especially Reformed dogmatics, and adopting their outlines, Lutheran dogmatics has tended to deviate from their christological content and goal. Kilcrease works to overcome christological deficits in theology by presenting a truly biblical theology that is thoroughly christological. This is rarely done. He has done it and in so doing set a standard in showing how biblical and systematical theology should be one theology—Christology.

      David P. Scaer

      Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology

      Concordia Theological Seminary

      Fort Wayne, Indiana

      Acknowledgments

      I would like to thank a number of people and institutions for contributing to the publication of this book. I would like to thank John Pless and Mark Mattes for reading and endorsing this manuscript. I would like to thank David Scaer for agreeing to write the foreword of this work. Troy Neujahr also deserves special mention for having helped me with editing the work. I would also like to thank my wife and other family members for their encouragement and support that made it possible for me to write this book. Lastly, I would like to thank Luther Seminary and Calvin College library for providing me with the research materials necessary for the completion of this book.

      Abbreviations

      AE Luther, Martin. American Edition of Luther’s Works. 55 vols. Edited by Jaroslav Pelikan and Helmut Lehmann. Philadelphia and St. Louis: Fortress and Concordia, 1957–86.

      ANF Ante-Nicene Fathers. 10 vols. Edited by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2004.

      Ap Apology to the Augsburg Confession

      BF Summa Theologiae. 60 vols. Blackfriars Edition. New York and London: McGraw-Hill, 1964–1973.

      CA Unaltered Augsburg Confession

      CD Church Dogmatics. Karl Barth. 4 vols. Translated by G. T. Thomason et al. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1936–77.

      CT Concordia Triglotta: The Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, German-Latin-English. Translated and Edited by W. H. T. Dau et al. St. Louis: Concordia, 1921.

      Ep Epitome of the Formula of Concord

      FC Formula of Concord

      ICR Institutes of the Christian Religion (1559) of John Calvin.

      LC Large Catechism of Martin Luther

      NPNFa Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers. 14 vols. Edited by Philip Schaff. First Series. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2004.

      NPNFb Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers. 14 vols. Edited by Philip Schaff and William Wace. Second Series. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2004.

      SA Smalcald Articles of Martin Luther

      SC Small Catechism of Martin Luther

      SD Solid Declaration of the Formula of Concord

      ST Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas

      TR D. Martin Luthers Werke: Kritische Gesammtausgabe. Tischrede. Weimar: Hermann Böhlau and H. Böhlaus Nachfolg, 1883–2009.

      WA D. Martin Luthers Werke: Kritische Gesammtausgabe. Martin Luther. 120 vols. Weimar: Hermann Böhlau and H. Böhlaus Nachfolg, 1883–2009.

       Chapter 1: Mediation in the Old Testament, Part 1

      Approach to Scripture, Prophetic Mediation

      Approach to Scripture