ST 5212 final paper
- # What does it mean to say that Jesus is “fully God and fully man”? Give at least two theological reasons why we should believe this doctrine.
- # RT Kendall
- Scripture attests to it
- without this belief, we have no Christian faith
- salvation
- # How human was Jesus?
- It is equally proof of his humanity; he was the son of Mary.
- # Christopher Watkin
- # JI Packer
- The Incarnation, this mysterious miracle at the heart of historic Christianity, is central in the New Testament witness.
- # Erickson
- The incarnation was more an additon of human attributes than a loss of divine attributes
- The union of the two natures meant that they did not function independently.
- In thinking about the incarnation, we must begin not with the traditional conceptions of humanity and deity, but with the recognition that the two are most fully known in Jessu Christ.
- It is important to think of the initiative of the incarnation as coming from above, asit were, rather than from below.
- It is also helpful to think of Jesus as a very complex person
- Ebionism
- Arianism
- Docetism
- Apollinarianism
- Jesus’s diety
- Jesus’s humanity
- Nestorianism
- Eutychianism
- Bibliography
ST 5212 final paper
- # What does it mean to say that Jesus is “fully God and fully man”? Give at least two theological reasons why we should believe this doctrine.
- # RT Kendall
- Scripture attests to it
- without this belief, we have no Christian faith
- salvation
- # How human was Jesus?
- It is equally proof of his humanity; he was the son of Mary.
- # Christopher Watkin
- # JI Packer
- The Incarnation, this mysterious miracle at the heart of historic Christianity, is central in the New Testament witness.
- # Erickson
- The incarnation was more an additon of human attributes than a loss of divine attributes
- The union of the two natures meant that they did not function independently.
- In thinking about the incarnation, we must begin not with the traditional conceptions of humanity and deity, but with the recognition that the two are most fully known in Jessu Christ.
- It is important to think of the initiative of the incarnation as coming from above, asit were, rather than from below.
- It is also helpful to think of Jesus as a very complex person
- Ebionism
- Arianism
- Docetism
- Apollinarianism
- Jesus’s diety
- Jesus’s humanity
- Nestorianism
- Eutychianism
- Bibliography