Author : Anna Marmodoro
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 11,63 MB
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199583161
A collection of original essays by leading philosophers of religion and philosophical theologians addressing the metaphysics of incarnation. Can it make sense to say that a single individual is both fully human and fully divine? What implications does such a claim have for our notions of humanity, divinity and personhood?
Author : Richard Cross
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 38,46 MB
Release : 2002-02-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0191554030
The period from Thomas Aquinas to Duns Scotus is one of the richest in the history of Christian theology. The Metaphysics of the Incarnation aims to provide a thorough examination of the doctrine in this era, making explicit its philosophical and theological foundations. Medieval theologians believed that there were good reasons for supposing that Christ's human nature was an individual. In the light of this, Part 1 discusses how the various thinkers held that an individual nature could be united to a divine person. Part 2 shows how one divine person could be incarnate without any other. Part 3 deals with questions of Christological predication, and Part 4 shows how an individual nature is to be distinguished from a person. The work begins with a full account of the metaphysics presupposed in the medieval accounts, and concludes with observations relating medieval accounts to modern Christology.
Author : Timothy J. Pawl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 27,73 MB
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1108606261
The Doctrine of the Incarnation, that Jesus Christ was both truly God and truly human, is the foundation and cornerstone of traditional Christian theism. And yet, this traditional teaching appears to verge on incoherence. How can one person be both God, having all the perfections of divinity, and human, having all the limitations of humanity? This is the fundamental philosophical problem of the incarnation. Perhaps a solution is found in an analysis of what the traditional teaching meant by person, divinity, and humanity, or in understanding how divinity and humanity were united in a single person? This Element presents that traditional teaching, then returns to the incoherence problem to showcase various solutions that have been offered to it.
Author : Michael Gorman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 36,35 MB
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107155320
This book is an insightful exploration of Aquinas's views on how Christ could be both divine and human but still only be one person.
Author : Stephen H. Webb
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,9 MB
Release : 2012-01-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199827958
Drawing on modern physics and ancient metaphysics, Stephen H. Webb constructs a philosophy of Christian materialism based on the unity of matter and spirit in the incarnation.
Author : Thomas V. Morris
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 13,92 MB
Release : 2001-04-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1579106293
This book is a philosophical examination of the logical problems associated with the claim that Jesus of Nazareth was one and the same person as God the Son, the Second Person of the divine Trinity. How can a being or person who is omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, etc., have become human given that humans are limited in knowledge and beset with weaknesses? Unless this belief in the incarnation is to be dismissed as pious sentimentality, a philosophical case must be made for at least the possible rationality of the idea. Tom Morris makes such an attempt in this book. Indeed, although it claims only to be arguing that the idea of God Incarnate is not impossible, The Logic of God Incarnate confronts the preponderance of modem philosophical argumentation against the incarnation and manages to put the traditional doctrine in a quite plausible light.
Author : William Hasker
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Analytic The
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 18,32 MB
Release : 2013-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199681511
William Hasker reviews the evidence concerning fourth-century pro-Nicene trinitarianism in the light of recent developments in the scholarship on this period, arguing for particular interpretations of crucial concepts. He then reviews and criticises recent work on the issue of the divine three-in-oneness, including systematic theologians such as Barth, Rahner, Moltmann, and Zizioulas, and analytic philosophers of religion such as Leftow, van Inwagen, Craig, and Swinburne.
Author : Thomas F. Torrance
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 26,26 MB
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830824588
This companion volume to T. F. Torrance's Incarnation: The Person and Life of Christ presents the material on the work of Christ, centered in the atonement, given originally in his lectures delivered to his students in Christian Dogmatics on Christology at New College, Edinburgh, from 1952-1978.
Author : Martin J. Schade
Publisher : UPA
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 12,61 MB
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0761867589
Western dualism is an illusion. Reality is a dialectical unity of incarnate love through the condition of the possibilities of divine and human, spirit and matter, Self and Other. The historical development to this metaphysical view is investigated in depth. Incarnation is a “legitimate pantheism.” Similarities to the Aum, the Tao, Rastafari and the “New Physics” are also provided. Incarnation offers an understanding of the Self with ethical and cultural applications which are presented in the material-supernatural existential of music and dance found in the Riddim of Creation.
Author : Dr Andrew Loke
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 42,17 MB
Release : 2014-12-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1472445759
The Incarnation, traditionally understood as the metaphysical union between true divinity and true humanity in the one person of Jesus Christ, is one of the central doctrines for Christians over the centuries. Nevertheless, many scholars have objected that the Scriptural account of the Incarnation is incoherent. Being divine seems to entail being omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent, but the New Testament portrays Jesus as having human properties such as being apparently limited in knowledge, power, and presence. It seems logically impossible that any single individual could possess such mutually exclusive sets of properties, and this leads to scepticism concerning the occurrence of the Incarnation in history. A Kryptic Model of the Incarnation aims to provide a critical reflection of various attempts to answer these challenges and to offer a compelling response integrating aspects from analytic philosophy of religion, systematic theology, and historical-critical studies. Loke develops a new Kryptic model of the Incarnation, drawing from the Greek word Krypsis meaning ‘hiding’, and proposing that in a certain sense Christ’s supernatural properties were concealed during the Incarnation.
