Abstract
The aim of this article is to argue that the sharing of ‘being’ between Jesus and the Godhead, professed in creedal Christianity and based on the Nicaean creed, pertains to a ‘sameness in divine substance’. This substance refers to divine wisdom, justice and mercy. The article attempts to demonstrate that there exists a congruence between textual evidence in the New Testament and these ‘orthodox’ belief tenets, especially represented in the Athanasian creed. This is explained in terms of an analysis of the origins and development of creedal formulae. This process represents a movement from a fundamental religious experience to a ‘use’ of metaphorical language, to the origins of confessional formulae that lead to the formulation of dogma. In light of the insight into the ‘building blocks’ of the formation of confessional formulae, the article concludes with a ‘deconstruction’ of the concepts ‘anathematisation’ and ‘heresy’.
Highlights
Affiliation: 1Research Focus Area: Gender Justice, Health, and Human Development, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa
The aim of this article is to argue that the sharing of ‘being’ between Jesus and the Godhead, professed in creedal Christianity and based on the Nicaean creed, pertains to a ‘sameness in divine substance’
In light of the insight into the ‘building blocks’ of the formation of confessional formulae, the article concludes with a ‘deconstruction’ of the concepts ‘anathematisation’ and ‘heresy’
Summary
Affiliation: 1Research Focus Area: Gender Justice, Health, and Human Development, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa. The kerygmatic tradition is the product of the earliest Jesus-movement in Jerusalem and as the religious conviction regarding the suffering ‘son of God’ as told in Mark is understood, the confession that God is the ‘father of Jesus’ can substantially be traced back to Jesus himself.
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