The great African theologian starts On the Incarnation like this:
That mystery the Jews despise, the Greeks deride, but we adore; and your own love and devotion to the Word also will be greater, because in his manhood He seems so little worth. For it is a fact that the more unbelievers pour scorn on Him, so much the more does He make His Godhead evident. The things which they, as men, rule out as impossible, He plainly shows to be possible; that which they deride as unfitting, His goodness makes most fit; and things which the wise laugh at as ‘human’ He by His inherent might declares divine. Thus by what seems His utter poverty and weakness on the cross He overturns the pomp and parade of idols, and in a quiet and hidden way wins over the mockers and unbelievers to recognize him as God.
Long before Luther, here is a Theology of the Cross. If you want to see true glory, true good, true God, look at the pain and foolishness and poverty of Calvary.
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Woow! that was a great revelation Andy…Surely, Paul said it all,Christ indeed is the Wisdom and the Power of God ,”….For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know Him,God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believed…No, we speak of God’s secret wisdom,a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before the time began.None of the rulers of this age understood it,for if they had ,they would not have crucified the Lord of glory….The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God,for they are foolishness to him,and he cannot understand them,because they are spiritually discerned…For who has known the mind of the LORD that that he may instruct HIM?But we have the mind of Christ.” so beautifully expressed for us here…the mysetry and the Power of God in Christ Jesus clearly revealed by the Spirit of God Himself to us..
I just had a post on Athanasius yesterday on my blog. That’s a real coincidence (or divine providence?)
Thanks for your comment Ambrose – taking us through 1 Corinthians 1 into 1 Corinthians 2 and giving us something wonderfully Trinitarian. I’m supposed to be preaching on 1 Corinthians 2:6-16 next week so you’ve just helped me with my prep. And welcome Trey. And thanks for your really helpful blog.