In Defense of Extended Conciliar Christology: A Philosophical Essay

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In Defense of Extended Conciliar Christology: A Philosophical Essay
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Dedication
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
Introduction
	I. THE EXTENSIONS AND SOME INITIAL JUSTIFICATION FOR CHOOSING THEM
	II. SOME POINTS ON METHOD
		II.a. Concerning the Assumption of Conciliar Christology
		II.b. On Mystery
		II.c. On Privileging the Councils
		II.d. Extensions Cumulatively Assumed
		II.e. The Division of Labor
		II.f. The Types of Philosophical Objections Considered
		II.g. My Reliance on Thomas Aquinas
	III. THE PLAN OF THE BOOK
1: Preliminaries
	I. INTRODUCTION
	II. THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ECUMENICAL COUNCILS
	III. THE TEACHING OF THE ECUMENICAL COUNCILS
	IV. THE METAPHYSICAL TERMS AND CONCEPTS
		IV.a. “Supposit” and “Person”
		IV.b. Nature: Abstract or Concrete
		IV.c. What Concrete Natures Can Do
	V. CONCLUSION
Part 1: Natural Extensions
	2: Multiple Interpretations of “Multiple Incarnations”
		I. INTRODUCTION
		II. FOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF MULTIPLE INCARNATIONS
			II.a. The Natural Question
			II.b. The Personal Question
			II.c. The Temporal Question
			II.d. The Sharing Question
		III . THE THOMISTIC UNDERSTANDING OF MULTIPLE INCARNATIONS
			III.a. The Thomistic Answer to the Natural Question
			III.b. The Thomistic Answer to the Personal Question
			III.c. The Thomistic Answer to the Temporal Question
			III.d. The Thomistic Answer to the Sharing Question
		IV. THE FULL THOMISTIC PICTURE
			IV.a. The Full Thomistic Picture Presented
			IV.b. The Full Thomistic Picture Ontologically Sketched
		V. CONCLUSION
	3: Objections to the Possibility of Multiple Incarnations
		I. INTRODUCTION
		II. THE OBJECTION FROM INCOMPATIBLE PREDICATIONS
			II.a. A Statement of the Objection
			II.b. Responses to the Objection
				II.b.1. The Reply from Denying the Predications
				II.b.2. The Reply from Qua-Modifying the Predications
				II.b.3. Denying the Incompatibility of the Predicates
		III. THE OBJECTION FROM TOO MANY THINKERS
			III.a. A Statement of the Objection
			III.b. A Response to the Objection
		IV. BRIAN HEBBLETHWAITE’S OBJECTION FROM COEXISTENT COMMUNITIES
			IV.a. A Statement of the Objection
			IV.b. A Response to the Objection
		V. BRIAN HEBBLETHWAITE’S OBJECTION FROM DIVINE SUBJECTHOOD
			V.a. A Statement of the Objection
			V.b. A Response to the Objection
		VI. ERIC MASCALL’S OBJECTION FROM CONFERRED PERSONALITY
			VI.a. A Statement of the Objection
			VI.b. A Response to the Objection
		VII. MICHAEL SCHMAUS ON THE INCARNATION OF THE FATHER OR HOLY SPIRIT
			VII.a. A Statement of the Objection
			VII.b. A Response to the Objection
		VIII. KENNETH BAKER’S PRESENTATION OF THE OBJECTION TO MULTIPLE INCARNATIONS
			VIII.a. A Statement of the Objection
			VIII.b. A Response to the Objection
		IX. CONCLUSION
	4: Christ and the Interim State
		I. INTRODUCTION
		II. CHRIST’S INTERIM STATE
		III. THE ARGUMENT PRESENTED
		IV. THE PREMISES
			IV.a. The Word Permanently Assumed Whatever He Assumed in the Incarnation
			IV.b. The Word Assumed CHN in the Incarnation
			IV.c. During the Interim State, Christ’s Human Nature Did Not Exist
			IV.d. No Real Relations without Relata
			IV.e. Assumption is a Real Relation
		V. POTENTIAL RESPONSES TO THE ARGUMENT
			V.a. Denying Premise 3
				V.a.1. The Abstract Nature View
				V.a.2. The One Part View
				V.a.3. The Mere Parts View
				V.a.4. The Survivalist View
				V.a.5. Summary of the Problems for these Responses
			V.b. Denying Premise 2
			V.c. Denying Premise 1
		VI. CONCLUSION
Part 2: Volitional Extensions
	5: The Freedom of Christ
		I. INTRODUCTION
		II. THE CREATED WILL OF CHRIST AND ITS FREEDOM
		III. FREE WILL
		IV. THIRD CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE FREEDOM OF CHRIST
			IV.a. The Text
			IV.b. A Presentation of Argument
			IV.c. A Reply to the Argument
		V. CONCLUSION
	6: Impeccability and Temptation
		I. INTRODUCTION
		II. THE WITNESS OF TRADITION
		III. THE PROBLEM
			III.a. The View as Presented in the Literature
			III.b. The Argument Formalized
		IV. RESPONSES THAT DENY THE TRUTH OF PREMISE 1
			IV.a. The Epistemic Response
			IV.b. A Psychological Response
		V. CAN SOMETHING BE PECCABLE AND IMPECCABLE?
			V.a. Christ’s Powers and the Ability to Sin
			V.b. The Aptness Conditions for the Predicates, “Peccable” and “Impeccable”
			V.c. Objections and Questions
				V.c.1. What is the Scope of “s” in the Truth Conditions?
				V.c.2. Must Natures have Natures, then?
				V.c.3. What of Leftow’s Bloody Hand?
		VI. A SUMMARY APPLICATION OF THE APPARATUS OF THE CHAPTER
		VII. CONCLUSION
Part 3: Intellectual Extensions
	7: Christ’s Knowledge in Relation to our Wills
		I. INTRODUCTION
		II. THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST
			II.a. Aquinas on the Knowledge of Christ
				II.a.1. Acquired Knowledge
				II.a.2. Beatific Knowledge
				II.a.3. Infused Knowledge
			II.b. Others on Christ’s Human Knowledge
			II.c. Scriptural Worries about the Foreknowledge Thesis
		III. THE ARGUMENT FORMALIZED
		IV. THE RELATION BETWEEN TRUTH AND BEING
		V. OBJECTIONS
			V.a. Lady Philosophy’s Objection
			V.b. A Disanalogy between Mere Human Intellectual States and Christ’s Intellectual States
			V.c. A Disanalogy between Future and Non-Future Truths
			V.d. Why Aquinas’s Silence Concerning This Reply?
			V.e. What if We Focus on Belief, Rather than Knowledge?
		VI. CONCLUSION
	8: Christ’s Knowledge in Relation to his Will
		I. INTRODUCTION
		II. THE PROBLEM OF DELIBERATION
		III. THE AUXILIARY THESES
			III.a. Certainty Precludes Deliberation
			III.b. Deliberation Requires Options
			III.c. Freedom Requires Deliberation
		IV. THE ARGUMENT FROM DELIBERATION PRESENTED
		V. RESPONSES TO THE ARGUMENT FROM DELIBERATION
			V.a. Deny 6 and 7
			V.b. Challenge Certainty Precludes Deliberation, Part 1
			V.c. Challenge Certainty Precludes Deliberation, Part 2
			V.d. Distinguish Certainty Precludes Deliberation
			V.e. Deny Freedom Requires Deliberation
		VI. THE PROBLEM OF EXPLANATORY PRIORITY
		VII. THE ARGUMENT PRESENTED
		VIII. RESPONSES TO THE PROBLEM OF EXPLANATORY PRIORITY
			VIII.a. The Pruss/Rota Response
			VIII.b. Occurrent vs Dispositional Knowledge
			VIII.c. Deny Premise 13
			VIII.d. Distinguish Senses of Priority
		IX. CONCLUSION
	Conclusion
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