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

Publication subTitle :The Incarnation Reconsidered

Publication series :Current Issues in Theology

Author: Oliver D. Crisp  

Publisher: Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year: 2007

E-ISBN: 9780511271809

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521873529

Subject: B972 , doctrines, theology

Keyword: 基督教

Language: ENG

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Divinity and Humanity

Description

The doctrine of the Incarnation lies at the heart of Christianity. But the idea that 'God was in Christ' has become a much-debated topic in modern theology. Oliver Crisp addresses six key issues in the Incarnation defending a robust version of the doctrine, in keeping with classical Christology. He explores perichoresis, or interpenetration, with reference to both the Incarnation and Trinity. Over two chapters Crisp deals with the human nature of Christ and then provides an argument against the view, common amongst some contemporary theologians, that Christ had a fallen human nature. He considers the notion of divine kenosis or self-emptying, and discusses non-Incarnational Christology, focusing on the work of John Hick. This view denies Christ is God Incarnate, regarding him as primarily a moral exemplar to be imitated. Crisp rejects this alternative account of the nature of Christology.

Chapter

The communicatio idiomatum

Nature-perichoresis

Person-perichoresis

Conclusions

2 The human nature of Christ

The historical-theological context

Different views on the human nature of Christ

Two abstract-nature views: Apollinarianism and monothelitism

The concrete-nature view: Nestorianism and dyothelitism

Two final thoughts

Conclusions

3 The anhypostasia–enhypostasia distinction

Two abstract–nature accounts

The concrete-nature account

The assumption of human nature

Summary

4 Did Christ have a fallen human nature?

The humanity of Christ

Fallenness and original sin

In defence of the fallenness view

Problems with the argument

Conclusions

5 Divine kenosis

Two versions of kenotic Christology

Ontological kenosis

Functionalist kenosis

Divine krypsis

6 Non-incarnational Christology

Six Christological claims

Did Jesus teach that he himself was God Incarnate?

The religious adequacy of the Chalcedonian two-natures doctrine

The great evils perpetrated for the sake of the two-natures doctrine

Incarnation, metaphor and the life and teaching of Christ

Christology and religious pluralism

Two more problems with Hick’s Christology

Conclusions

Index

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