The Metaphysics of the Incarnation

The Metaphysics of the Incarnation
Title The Metaphysics of the Incarnation PDF eBook
Author Richard Cross
Publisher OUP Oxford
Pages 379
Release 2002-02-14
Genre Religion
ISBN 0191554030

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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.

The Incarnation

The Incarnation
Title The Incarnation PDF eBook
Author Timothy J. Pawl
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 134
Release 2020-10-22
Genre Religion
ISBN 1108606261

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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.

Aquinas on the Metaphysics of the Hypostatic Union

Aquinas on the Metaphysics of the Hypostatic Union
Title Aquinas on the Metaphysics of the Hypostatic Union PDF eBook
Author Michael Gorman
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 191
Release 2017-06-22
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1107155320

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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.

Atonement

Atonement
Title Atonement PDF eBook
Author Thomas F. Torrance
Publisher InterVarsity Press
Pages 575
Release 2014-09-09
Genre Religion
ISBN 0830824588

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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.

Jesus Christ, Eternal God

Jesus Christ, Eternal God
Title Jesus Christ, Eternal God PDF eBook
Author Stephen H. Webb
Publisher OUP USA
Pages 356
Release 2012-01-12
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0199827958

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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.

Incarnation

Incarnation
Title Incarnation PDF eBook
Author Martin J. Schade
Publisher UPA
Pages 193
Release 2016-05-26
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0761867589

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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.

The Logic of God Incarnate

The Logic of God Incarnate
Title The Logic of God Incarnate PDF eBook
Author Thomas V. Morris
Publisher Wipf and Stock Publishers
Pages 221
Release 2001-04-06
Genre Religion
ISBN 1579106293

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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.