Sunday's Hymn: Praise Him! Praise Him! Jesus Our Blessed Redeemer

Praise him! praise him! Jesus, our blessed Redeemer!
Sing, O earth, his wonderful love proclaim!
Hail him! hail him! highest archangels in glory;
Strength and honor give to his holy name!
Like a shepherd, Jesus will guard his children,
In his arms he carries them all day long:

Refrain
Praise him! praise him! tell of his excellent greatness,
Praise him! praise him! ever in joyful song!

Praise him! praise him! Jesus, our blessed Redeemer!
For our sins he suffered and bled and died;
He our Rock, our hope of eternal salvation,
Hail him! hail him! Jesus the crucified.
Sound his praises! Jesus who bore our sorrows,
Love unbounded, wonderful, deep and strong:

Praise him! praise him! Jesus, our blessed Redeemer!
Heav’nly portals loud with hosannas ring!
Jesus, Saviour, reigneth for ever and ever;
Crown him! crown him! Prophet and Priest and King!
Christ is coming! Over the world victorious,
Power and glory unto the Lord belong:

 —Fanny J. Crosby

 Other hymns, worship songs, or quotes for this Sunday:

• How Oft Have Sin and Sorrow Strove at The Happy Wonderer
• To Save A Wretch Like Me at The Outspoken Tulip 
• Unconditional Love, By Grace Alone at Tried With Fire
• Lord’s Day 3, 2020 at The Thirsty Theologian

Selected Reading, January 18, 2020

Introducing a brand new category. (It’s been extremely cold and my mind is stuck in winter gear.)

Christology

How Did Jesus Do Miracles—His Divine Nature or the Holy Spirit?
D. Blair Smith reminds us that persons, not natures, do things: “It’s not wrong to say that the Spirit is acting in Jesus’s miracles; he is. It is wrong to say that the second person of the Trinity isn’t.” 

Biography 

Mary Honywood and Her Flickering, Unquenchable Faith
Simonetta Carr’s piece introduced me to a woman of the past I knew nothing about. “Mary was one of the many gentlewomen of her time who supported Protestant preachers during the troubled reign of Mary Tudor. She was also one of the many who struggled in the transition from Roman Catholic to Protestant teachings.” —Simonetta Carr

Winter Weather

Cows in -40 C weather
Don’t feel too sorry for them. God gave them a secret weapon.

10 Delicious Hot Chocolate Mix-Ins
January is the perfect time for a list of ways to spice up a cup of hot chocolate. 

Dead of Winter Map
If you live in Canada, you might be interested in seeing when your dead of winter happens. (Dead of winter is when your lowest temperatures are most likely to occur.) 

Theological Term of the Week: Extra-Calvinisticum

extra-Calvinisticum
“The belief of the Reformed church, in agreement with the Catholic tradition, that the Son exists beyond the bounds of the human nature assumed into union in the incarnation. The term was coined by the Lutherans, who claimed that the assumed humanity received divine attributes, including omnipresence, by virtue of the hypostatic union. .”1 

• From Systematic Theology by Robert Letham: 

  [T]he Reformed maintained that the person of the Logos is not confined to the union established with the assumed humanity. As God, he transcends the bounds of the incarnate union. Conversely, Lutheranism, with its idea of the transference of divine attributes to the humanity, strenuously held that since the humanity partakes of omnipresence, the Son is never beyond its bounds. In calling the Reformed formulation the extra-Calvinisticum, or “the Calvinistic beyond,” Lutherans contended that is was a departure from orthodox Christology.

  However, Luther and the Lutherans were the innovators.  … At least as early as Athanasius, this idea was commonplace. 

• From Calvin’s Institues of the Christian Religion, Book 2, Chapter 13, Section 5:

  [A]lthough the boundless essence of the Word was united with human nature into one person, we have no idea of any enclosing. The Son of God descended miraculously from heaven, yet without abandoning heaven; was pleased to be conceived miraculously in the Virgin’s womb, to live on the earth, and hang upon the cross, and yet always filled the world as from the beginning.

Learn more:

1. Theopedia: Extra calvinisticum
2. Kevin DeYoung: Theological Primer: The Extra Calvinisticum
3. For the Church: The Extra Calvinisticum

Related terms: 

• christology
• communicatio idiomatum
• deity of Christ
• humanity of Christ
• hypostatic union

Filed under Person, Work, and Teaching of Christ

1From Systematic Theology by Robert Letham.

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