Selected Reading, May 1, 2021

 

A couple things you should read this weekend.

Christian History

Robert Jermain Thomas
A fascinating story of a missionary well-known in Korea, but not known at all to me. Do you know this story?

Gregory of Nanziansus
The theological term for this week is a Cappadocian Father. 

Christology

Why Jesus’s Humanity Matters as Much as His Divinity
“[T]he apostle John makes Jesus’s humanity a test of orthodoxy: ‘By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God’ (1 John 4:2). And whoever rejects the reality that Jesus came “in the flesh” is called an ‘antichrist’ (1 John 4:3).”

So why it matters so much that Jesus is truly human? Michael Kruger explains.