“[...]how the Word becomes flesh; how life is mingled with death;"

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“[...]how the Word becomes flesh; how life is mingled with death; how by his own stripe our calamity is healed; how by the weakness of the cross the power of the Adversary was overthrown; how the invisible was revealed in the flesh; how he redeemed the captives, being himself both the purchaser and the price (for he gave himself as a ransom to death on our account); how he died and did not depart from life; how he shared in the condition of a slave and remained in his kingly state.” (Songs, GNO VI, 255-256, ch. 8, p. 269)

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Nein!(?) A negative "point of contact" in the Epistle to Diognetus?

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Still working on The Epistle to Diognetus , which keeps making associations to modern theology pop up. This time it's Karl Barth's debate with Emil Brunner. Consider the epistle's claim that, “[...]being convicted in the past time by our own deeds as unworthy of life, we might now be made deserving by the goodness of God, and having made clear our inability to enter into the kingdom of God of ourselves, might be enabled by the ability of God.” (9.1, Lightfoot) and “Having then in the former time demonstrated the inability of our nature to obtain life, and having now revealed a Saviour able to save even creatures which have no ability, He willed that for both reasons we should believe in His goodness[...]” (9.6, Lightfoot) If by 'dialectical theology' we mean that God's 'yes' and 'no' are inseparable (Tillich), this is certainly a specimen of such. The two elements, negative and positive, come together in faith (in an Aufhebung! ), or? A
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