The Reformed Covenanter has a post about Kline here:
http://reformedcovenanter.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/the-heresies-of-meredith-kline/
Interesting. Can anybody with first-hand knowledge of Kline confirm these quotes and speak to whether or not they are in context?
April 16, 2009 at 10:58 pm |
As for the first thing, yes, Kline coined a new term “endoxation” (dox=glory), to be a parallel to “incarnation” (carn=flesh), for describing situations in which the Holy Spirit is manifested physically/visibly, i.e. overshadowing creation in Gen 1:2, the glory cloud and pillar of fire, the dove, Pentecost, etc. He wrote a whole book called “Images of the Spirit”, where he explored this concept in relation to man’s being an image bearer. You can hear Kline himself lecture about it; search this index for “endoxation”.
As for the second thing, I don’t know anything about it, or about the context. But fill in the blank: Christ, the Son of God, became man, by taking to himself a true body and a reasonable soul, being conceived by the power of BLANK in the womb of the virgin Mary, and born of her, yet without sin.
(a) The Father
(b) The Holy Ghost
(c) a Roman Soldier
So where’s the heresy? If he’s just saying “There’s a sense in which you could say that the Son proceeds from the Father and Spirit,” is that so wrong? I guess it does seem unwarranted to take the Spirit’s role in the incarnation, and lever it back into the eternal begetting of the Son. But again, I can’t speak to the context.