The Rule of Faith

In this twenty-eighth episode, we read the Scriptural witness and account of the Lord's Incarnation, from the Prophets in the Old Testament, and from the Gospels and Epistles in the New Testament.

In this twenty-seventh episode, we begin our meditation upon the Lord's coming in the flesh, the long-awaited Incarnation, and set out eight essential points to consider over the next several episodes.

In this twenty-sixth episode, we discuss what it means that Jesus Christ comes down from heaven, remembering that in this case, and many others, the heights of heaven refer to the Eternal Divinity of God Himself, and not to the geography or altitude of heaven.

In the course of the episode, we refer to the audio and written work of Fr. Stephen Freeman. We therefore include links to his podcast (http://www.ancientfaith.com/podcasts/freeman) and to purchase his book, Everywhere Present (https://store.ancientfaith.com/everywhere-present-christianity-in-a-one-storey-universe/).

In this twenty-fifth episode, we marvel at the God's entrance into His Creation, and consider the wondrous truth that He has come to live in our midst because He loves us and desires to reconcile us to Himself.

In this twenty-fourth episode, we pivot from the Divinity of the Lord which we have been discussing to the marvelous matter of His Humanity, His presence in our midst.

In this twenty-third episode, we pause to review some of the theological terminology we have been using, and to emphasize the centrality of the Person of Jesus Christ to the Christian Rule of Faith.

In this twenty-second episode, we examine the Iconoclastic controversy, and the final resolution of the controversies of the first 800 years of Christian history, as the restoration of the Icons balanced the intellectual emphasis of the first six Ecumenical Councils with a final affirmation of the tangibility and immanent presence of the Lord.

In this twenty-first episode, we summarize the controversies that consumed the Church's attention between A.D. 325 and 681, and the decisions of the first six Ecumenical Councils that resolved the controversies and built an intellectual fence around the Rule of Faith as they did so.

In this twentieth episode, we meditate on the mystery that the entrance of the Son of God into the Creation is not contingent on other causes, but is the primary act of Creation, as we continue to reflect on the meaning of the phrase, "through Whom all things were made."

In this nineteenth episode, we reflect on the separation between Creation and Creator, and the active presence of the Son of God as Creator that is nonetheless the ultimate truth of existence, however distant we feel ourselves to be from Him.