| Description |
1 online resource (186 p.) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- Contents -- Preface -- Annunciation -- 1. The Great Mystery -- 1.1 Incarnation and Inconsistency -- 1.2 Why Be Orthodox? -- 1.3 Period or Contemporary Metaphysics? -- 1.4 Defending Incarnational Christology -- 1.5 Plan of This Book -- Part I. Incarnational Models -- 2. A Composite Christ? -- 2.1 A Disturbing Case -- 2.2 The Reduplicative Formula and Its Interpretation -- 2.3 Simple Son, Composite Christ: Model A -- 2.4 The Son Becomes Composite: Model T -- 3. The Divided Mind -- 3.1 Dissociated Mental Lives |
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3.2 Access and Anomaly -- 3.3 Two Persons or One? -- 3.4 Filial Fission -- 4. Kenosis -- 4.1 The Varieties of Kenoticism -- 4.2 The Case for Kenoticism -- 4.3 Objections to Kenoticism-and Replies -- Part II. 'Impossible' Transformations -- 5. Divine Embodiment -- 5.1 Omnipresence and Space -- 5.2 Embodiment as Causal Connection -- 5.3 Embodiment as Realization -- 5.4 Occupation with and without Spatial Parts -- 6. The Problem of Necessity -- 6.1 The Modal Argument -- 6.2 Incarnational Models and the Modal Argument -- 6.3 Immortality and Self-sufficiency -- 6.4 Conditional and Absolute Necessity |
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6.5 The Shadow of Arianism -- 7. Christ and the Ground of Goodness -- 7.1 Meta-ethics and the Incarnation -- 7.2 Transmitter or Originator of Value? The Euthyphro Dilemma -- 7.3 Temptation, Ignorance, and Being Human -- 7.4 Types, Tokens, and the Trinity -- 7.5 Christ as Moral Exemplar -- 8. The Times of God Incarnate -- 8.1 The Temporal Paradox of the Incarnation -- 8.2 Time and Spacetime -- 8.3 Temporal Existence -- 8.4 God's Relation to Time -- 8.5 Resolving the Temporal Paradox -- 8.6 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
The idea that God became human in Christ seems paradoxical: surely nothing can be both divine and human? Robin Le Poidevin deploys the resources of contemporary metaphysics to show how even the apparently unchangeable aspects of the divine might be relinquished by God the Son |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Jesus Christ -- Divinity
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Jesus Christ -- Humanity
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| SUBJECT |
Jesus Christ fast |
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Incarnation.
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Divinity of Christ
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Humanity of Jesus Christ
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Incarnation
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Religion & beliefs.
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Religion.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192873835 |
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0192873830 |
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9780191976636 |
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0191976636 |
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