Divinity and Humanity: The Incarnation Reconsidered (Current Issues in Theology)

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 4
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
1 Problems with perichoresis......Page 17
Two applications of perichoresis......Page 19
The communicatio idiomatumand nature-perichoresis......Page 20
The communicatio idiomatum......Page 22
Nature-perichoresis......Page 35
Person-perichoresis......Page 43
Conclusions......Page 48
2 The human nature of Christ......Page 50
The historical-theological context......Page 52
Different views on the human nature of Christ......Page 57
Two abstract-nature views: Apollinarianism and monothelitism......Page 66
The concrete-nature view: Nestorianism and dyothelitism......Page 77
Two final thoughts......Page 82
Conclusions......Page 85
3 The anhypostasia–enhypostasia distinction......Page 88
Two abstract–nature accounts......Page 91
The concrete-nature account......Page 95
The assumption of human nature......Page 100
Summary......Page 103
The humanity of Christ......Page 106
Fallenness and original sin......Page 109
In defence of the fallenness view......Page 122
Problems with the argument......Page 127
Conclusions......Page 132
5 Divine kenosis......Page 134
Ontological kenosis......Page 138
Functionalist kenosis......Page 155
Divine krypsis......Page 163
6 Non-incarnational Christology......Page 170
Six Christological claims......Page 171
Did Jesus teach that he himself was God Incarnate?......Page 172
The religious adequacy of the Chalcedonian two-natures doctrine......Page 182
The great evils perpetrated for the sake of the two-natures doctrine......Page 186
Incarnation, metaphor and the life and teaching of Christ......Page 187
Christology and religious pluralism......Page 194
Two more problems with Hick’s Christology......Page 197
Conclusions......Page 200
Index......Page 201