...The Christology of the treatise provides us with three crucial parameters for a proper theological epistemology: the dependence of knowledge of God on the Incarnation; the link between knowledge of God and soteriology; the eschatological character of the act through which God makes himself known...

...This chapter examines the apophatic structure of Søren Kierkegaard's Christology. It analyses Kierkegaard's kenotic theory, his soteriology, and his development of the concept of contemporaneity, and discusses his understanding of the Incarnation. This chapter concludes that apophaticism...

... with being an advocate of theopatheia. In response, Cyril developed a doctrine of God’s appropriation of human suffering and insisted upon the divine self-emptying in the incarnation. Patristic application of the analogy of the soul–body union to the relationship between the divine...

...Chapter 8 explores how early Christian theologians envisioned creation and recreation playing out in the ministries of Jesus and the Spirit. Not just the preexistent but the incarnate Son was active agent of creation and redemption. Patristic theologians thus interpreted individual...

... Samuel Incarnation Brecht Bertolt Dick Philip K Audience Expectations of audience Memory Olivier Lawrence Immediate Theater Representation Hope Performance Russell Letty Performative hermeneutics Scripture Deadly Church Liturgy Rough Church Harris Max Immediate Church Humility Role...

... later in her career as she became increasing committed to biblical studies. While acknowledging herself to be an intellectual disciple of Durkheim, Douglas expounded the doctrine of the Incarnation as a way of refuting the assumption that Durkheim’s insights undercut the veracity of the Christian faith...

... to the reinstatement of harmony through the Incarnation. The Son takes upon himself this disproportion to restore the crookedness of sinful human nature by reducing his divinity, putting on humanity, and becoming ‘human God’. Satan's expression ‘human Gods’ comes close to the Origenic phrase theanthropos...

...This chapter examines this Cassian's Christocentrism with specific reference to the monastic character of Cassian's theology. Cassian's treatise On the Incarnation of the Lord, against Nestorius the heretic will be chiefly in evidence. It is argued that Cassian's Christological...

...From the previous chapter, it becomes possible to see how relativism, the dominating intellectual interest of Troeltsch's career, was set to be a highly significant factor in his rejection of ‘incarnational’ Christology. This chapter helps to explain this rejection. It describes those aspects...

... have been supplying here is simply a list of distinct possible understandings of ‘incarnation’ which are actually in use and which locate the distinguishing characteristics of ‘incarnationalism’ in different places. I am not of course claiming that any of these ways of understanding the term...

..., Tillich, Mascall, and Lewis. The doctrinal questions include incarnation, sin, revelation, salvation, and new creation. It is suggested that extending a model of Origen will provide a way forward for Christian theology and hold together issues of particularity and universality. The question...

... interaction with patristic, medieval, and early modern sources on this question, material which has been ignored by previous scholars. This chapter examines the continuity of Ussher’s views with an important stream of the Western Christian tradition. It also considers the relationship of incarnation...

....” It examines Hegel philosophical explication of representations at the core of Christian doctrine, particularly the Incarnation and the church. First here, specifically in the 1827 version of these lectures, does Hegel elaborate a conception of Christianity as the civil religion for which he has searching...

...Concretism is the claim that the incarnate Son of God assumed a concrete created individual that, had it existed on its own, would have qualified as a full human person. This chapter briefly mentions a few reasons for endorsing concretism and introduces two desiderata for a fully developed...

... to become incarnate; the Resurrection would then be the divine signature on his work, showing that he had become incarnate. So any evidence from natural theology that there is a God with a certain nature, and any reason to suppose that having that nature would lead a God to become incarnate, is evidence...

... as memory, intellect and will. The epistemological role of sense perception comes to the fore again, and the centrality of the Incarnation brings the more abstract trinitarian speculation into focus: faith in the true mediator gives access to the divine life that unites the temporal and the eternal. Christ...

... point for all moral knowledge. He opens Institutio 4 by recapitulating his claim that human idolatry is the root of ignorance, vice, and violence. He then proceeds to express a “two-stage Christology,” which first explains the pre-Incarnate existence of the Son, and then presents...

... its biblical forcefield, in figures of creation and new creation, of material justice, incarnation, and ritual embodiment. By way of a Whiteheadian reading of Barad’s quantum entanglement of physics and ethics along with Bennett’s vital materialism, this essay considers—in the face of looming...

... religion, the Roman persecutions of the first Christians, and the theological history of the doctrine of the Incarnation. Gibbon demonstrates his remarkable ability to assess a condition or situation from the perspective of a people living in the past somewhere, and then reassess matters from his own...

... and Sacred Heart. Nevertheless, the pre-eminent forms for this incarnated encounter were thought to be the Mass and host, and through an exploration of the marked changes to the language and form of the liturgy, this chapter illuminates associated and little-recognised shifts in Eucharistic theology...