The Sovereign Love of God

K ingdomtide : A S eason of C hrist ’ s H eadship

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Weekly Reflection on the Sovereign Love of God Thus there was born true God in the entire and perfect nature of true man, complete in his own properties, complete in ours. . . . He assumed the form of a servant without the stain of sin, making the human properties greater, but not detracting from the divine. For that “emptying of himself,” whereby . . . the Creator and Lord of all willed to be amortal, was a condescension of compassion, not a failure of power. Accordingly, he whomade man, while he remained in the formof God, was himself made man in the form of a servant. Each nature preserves its own characteristics without diminution, so that the form of a servant does not detract from the form of God. ~ Leo the Great, Letter 28.3 in The Later Christian Fathers , ed. and trans. H. Bettenson. London: Oxford University Press, 1970. pp. 278–79 (translation modified).

Let God Arise! Seasonal Focus Christus Victor: Recapitulation: Christ in the OT, John 5.39

Book Reading Heine, Classical Christian Doctrine