The Metaphysics of the Incarnation

The Metaphysics of the Incarnation PDF Author: Anna Marmodoro
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0199583161
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 262

Get Book

Book Description
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?

The Metaphysics of the Incarnation

The Metaphysics of the Incarnation PDF Author: Anna Marmodoro
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0199583161
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 262

Get Book

Book Description
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?

The Metaphysics of the Incarnation

The Metaphysics of the Incarnation PDF Author: Richard Cross
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191554030
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 380

Get Book

Book Description
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.

Things Seen and Unseen

Things Seen and Unseen PDF Author: Orion Edgar
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1498202624
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 307

Get Book

Book Description
The philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty was developing into a radical ontology when he died prematurely in 1961. Merleau-Ponty identified this nascent ontology as a philosophy of incarnation that carries us beyond entrenched dualisms in philosophical thinking about perception, the body, animality, nature, and God. What does this ontology have to do with the Catholic language of incarnation, sacrament, and logos on which it draws? In this book, Orion Edgar argues that Merleau-Ponty's philosophy is dependent upon a logic of incarnation that finds its roots and fulfillment in theology, and that Merleau-Ponty drew from the Catholic faith of his youth. Merleau-Ponty's final abandonment of Christianity was based on an understanding of God that was ultimately Kantian rather than orthodox, and this misunderstanding is shared by many thinkers, both Christian and not. As such, Merleau-Ponty's philosophy suggests a new kind of natural theology, one that grounds an account of God as ipsum esse subsistens in the questions produced by a phenomenological account of the world. This philosophical ontology also offers to Christian theology a route away from dualistic compromises and back to its own deepest insight.

Aquinas on the Metaphysics of the Hypostatic Union

Aquinas on the Metaphysics of the Hypostatic Union PDF Author: Michael Gorman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107155320
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 191

Get Book

Book Description
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.

Incarnation

Incarnation PDF Author: Martin J. Schade
Publisher: UPA
ISBN: 0761867589
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Get Book

Book Description
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.

Jesus Christ, Eternal God

Jesus Christ, Eternal God PDF Author: Stephen H. Webb
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0199827958
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Get Book

Book Description
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.

St. Cyril of Alexandria's Metaphysics of the Incarnation

St. Cyril of Alexandria's Metaphysics of the Incarnation PDF Author: Sergey Trostyanskiy
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 1453918892
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 347

Get Book

Book Description
Cyril of Alexandria is one of the major intellectuals of the early Byzantine Christian world. His approach to Christ is at the core of the classical Christian tradition, however, because his works were not translated into English in the post-Reformation environment, the precise implications of his "science of Christ" have been extensively misunderstood. This work seeks to reposition Cyril in the precise philosophical context to which he belonged, seeking, as he did, for a deliberate bridge-building between ecclesiastical biblical presuppositions and the semantic terms central to the Late Antique philosophical Academy, with which he understands the Church must communicate. This book seeks to lay bare the fundamental philosophical axioms of Cyril’s metaphysics of the Incarnation. To illuminate this, it investigates the fifth-century curriculum of metaphysical studies as followed in the academies of both Alexandria and Athens. Common to both Cyril and his Hellene contemporaries are the terms of theological speculation prevalent in the Commentaries on the Parmenides. This monograph applies the schema of theological analysis offered by the Commentators to Cyril’s metaphysics of the Incarnation to see how well it accounts for the precise terms of the Incarnational doctrine posited by Cyril. This study also endeavors to expound and evaluate the many previous (and heavily conflicting) scholarly accounts of Cyril’s intellectual agenda. It outlines various cognitive gaps associated with the macro arguments of the different positions, which by and large have underestimated Cyril’s philosophical acumen and ignored his own immediate academic context.

Animals, Theology and the Incarnation

Animals, Theology and the Incarnation PDF Author: Kris Hiuser
Publisher: SCM Press
ISBN: 0334055385
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 298

Get Book

Book Description
How does an understanding of the non-human lead us to a greater understanding of the incarnation? Are non-human animals morally relevant within Christian theology and ethics? Is there a human ethical responsibility towards non-human animals? In Animals, Theology and the Incarnation, Kris Hiuser argues that if we are called to represent both God to creation, and creation to God, then this has considerable bearing on understanding what it means to be human, as well as informing human action towards non-human creatures.

Divinity and Humanity

Divinity and Humanity PDF Author: Oliver D. Crisp
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139464884
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Get Book

Book 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.

The Incarnation

The Incarnation PDF Author: Timothy J. Pawl
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108606261
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 134

Get Book

Book Description
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.