Comments on: ETS Live-Blog: Bruce Ware’s 2009 Presidential Address

By: Craig Forrester

Craig Forrester — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 01:47:04 +0000

Is the transcript, audio, or video of this address available anywhere? Craig --EOM

By: Big Ideas: Could Jesus have sinned?

Big Ideas: Could Jesus have sinned? — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 13:44:11 +0000

[...] and Beer Theology” – fun to talk about but not really important. You can find the article by clicking here – but, I warn you, it is long and sort of difficult to grasp (I had to re-read several sections [...]

By: ETS Highlights: The Moore Tour and More (Including Beignets) « owen strachan

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:54:38 +0000

[...] As readers of this blog know, I had the special pleasure of blogging Bruce Ware’s ETS presidential address. I’ll remember that for a long time to [...]

By: A Few Highlights from ETS « John Ploughman

A Few Highlights from ETS « John Ploughman — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:12:01 +0000

[...] Owen Strachen live-blogged Bruce Ware’s presidential address on the humanity of Christ. Owen did a superb job. I [...]

By: Perry Robinson

Perry Robinson — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:41:25 +0000

Ware’s account is the standard Reformed account more or less. You can find it in John Owen and others.

It does seem a bit adoptionistic though. There are other problems too it seems. Natures don’t do anything and neither do they determine actions or execute them. Persons do that. Consequently, the reason Jesus couldn’t have sinned is that he is a divine person who wills through his human will as well as through his divine will. Ware’s problem is that he is thinking of Christ’s human power of choice as being gnomic or unfixed relative to the divine person. And that seems to give the impression that the human nature of Christ is itself a hypostasis.

I am curious if Ware mentions Christ’s saying in the Passion of “not my will.” What were his comments if any regarding that?