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Subsections
Not All Christ’s Operations are Theandric in Same Way; Mt. 28:18
Christ’s Intercession
Reformed vs. Aquinas
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Order of Contents
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Articles
See also ‘Commentaries on the Apostles’ Creed’ on ‘and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty’.
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1500’s
Beza, Theodore – p. 9 in A Book of Christian Questions & Answers… (London, 1574)
Zanchi, Girolamo – ‘Of the Resurrection of Christ Jesus from the Dead, his Ascension into Heaven & Sitting at God’s Right Hand, out of Eph. 1 [On Theandric Operations & Against Ubiquity]’ (1581) in ‘Certain Positions’ appended to Confession of the Christian Religion… (1586; Cambridge, 1599), pp. 397-419
Olevian, Caspar – An Exposition of the Apostle’s Creed (London, 1581), pt. 2
’He sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty’
Testimonies out of the prophets and Apostles
To what end sitting at the right hand of God the Father Almighty is added to his ascension into heaven
What the sitting at the right hand of God the Father is
What fruit the faithful receive by that same sitting of Christ at the right hand of God, or rather by that exaltation of Christ in his kingdom and priesthood
The second fruit whereof we be partakers by this exaltation of Christ in the priesthood
The third fruit
The fourth fruit
What the exaltation of Christ is in his kingdom, which is the other part of the sitting of Christ at the right hand of God
What fruits we are partakers of by the exaltation of Christ in his kingdom
The second and the third fruit
The third fruit
Olevian (1536–1587) was a significant German reformed theologian, and has been said to be a co-author of the Heidelberg Catechism along with Zacharias Ursinus (though this has been questioned).
Ursinus, Zachary – The Sum of Christian Religion: Delivered… in his Lectures upon the Catechism… tr. Henrie Parrie (Oxford, 1587), pt. 2, On the Apostles’ Creed, pp. 591-98
‘He Sits at the Right Hand of God the Father Almighty’
1. What the Right Hand of God Signifies
2. What it is to Sit at God’s Right Hand
3. Whether Christ did always sit at the right hand of God
4. What are the fruits of Christ’s sitting at the right hand of the Father
Beza, Theodore, Anthony Faius & Students – 47. ‘Of his Sitting at the Right Hand of the Father’ in Propositions & Principles of Divinity Propounded & Disputed in the University of Geneva by Certain Students of Divinity there, under Mr. Theodore Beza & Mr. Anthony Faius… (Edinburgh: Waldegrave, 1591), pp. 128-31
Perkins, William – ’Christ’s Sitting at the Right Hand, etc.’ in An Exposition of the Symbol, or Apostles’ Creed… (Cambridge, 1595), p. 351 & 363
Perkins (d. 1602) was an influential, puritan, Anglican clergyman and Cambridge theologian.
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1600’s
Bucanus, William – 28. ‘Of Christ’s Sitting at the Right Hand of his Father’ in Institutions of Christian Religion... (London: Snowdon, 1606), pp. 276-87
Is the sitting of Christ at the right hand of his Father a distinct article from that of his ascension?
What signifies ‘the right hand’?
What signifies ‘sitting’?
But what does it signify jointly or together to sit or to stand at the right hand of any man?
Is Christ said to sit at the right hand of the Father properly or metaphorically?
Seeing then Christ sits at the right hand of the Father, does it thereupon follow that the Father sits on the left hand?
What is therefore meant by this kind of speech?
What is then the sitting of Christ at the right hand of the Father?
Whence do you confirm this exposition?
What is the efficient cause?
This sitting then, is it of the whole person, or only of one of the natures, namely of the human?
But as Christ is said to be raised from the dead, not in respect of his divine nature, but of his human, shall He not also be said to sit at the right hand of his Father only in respect of his humanity?
But has not Christ always reigned with his Father, and so likewise has He not always sat at the right hand of his father?
When did He begin to sit at the right hand of the Father?
What is the place of this sitting at the right hand of the Father?
Why is He said to sit rather than to stand?
Does not the omnipresence or the being everywhere of his body follow upon the sitting of Christ at the right hand of his Father, seeing the right hand of the Father at which He sits is everywhere?
Is not Christ everywhere?
How many parts are there of this sitting?
What is the end?
What are the effects or fruits?
What means Christ then when He says, Mt. 20:23, ‘To sit at my right hand, and at my left hand, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father’?
What is the use of this doctrine?
What is contrary to this doctrine?
Turretin, Francis – 19. ‘What is the session of Christ at the right hand of God? According to what nature does it apply to Christ and does it pertain to the relation of situation? We deny.’ in Institutes of Elenctic Theology, tr. George M. Giger, ed. James Dennison Jr. (1679–1685; P&R, 1994), vol. 2, 13th Topic, pp. 369-73
van Mastricht, Peter – ch. 17, ‘The Session of the Mediator at the Right Hand of God’ in Theoretical Practical Theology (2nd ed. 1698; RHB), vol. 4, pt. 1, bk. 5, pp. 563-82
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Book
1600’s
Goodwin, Thomas – Christ set forth, in his Death, Resurrection, Ascension, Sitting at God’s Right Hand & Intercession in Works, vol. 4, pp. 1-91
This is on Christ as the object and support of the faith of his people.
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Latin Articles
1600’s
Tossanus, Daniel – A Locus on the Session of Christ at the Right Hand of the Father in the Highest & the Dominion in All Creatures, Explained by some [44] perspicuous theses and vindicated from the corruptions of Ubiquitists… in a Public Disputation… (Heidelberg: Smesmann, 1591) no page numbers
Voet, Gisbert – Of the Session at the Right Hand of the Father in Syllabus of Theological Problems (Utrecht, 1643), pt. 1, section 2, tract 2 Abbr.
“What is understood by the right hand of God? It is explained.
Whether it is competent to the divine nature to sit at the right hand of the Father? It is affirmed with a distinction.
Whether according to the session at the right hand, Christ, according to the human nauture, is everywhere? It is denied.
Whether the terms ‘right hand of God’ and ‘to sit’ are metaphors, or rather metonymies? It is affirmed of both.
Whether properly as a king, or rather as a priest or a prophet He sits at the right hand of God? The first is affirmed.
Whether and when the session at the right hand will be ended? It is distinguished and explained.
Whether the Last Judgment may pertain to the session at the right hand? It is affirmed.”
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