The Coherence of the Incarnation

William Lane CRAIG

Makale detayları

The Coherence of the Incarnation

Yazarlar:

William Lane CRAIG

Yayıncı:

Ankara University

Dergi:

Journal of the Faculty of Divinity of Ankara University 2009 Vol.50 Issue 2, pp.185-200

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

7/2009

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2000878891

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

1309-2057

pISSN:

1301-0522

Özet:

 

Church Fathers. Often labeled Alexandrian vs. Antiochean Christology,  these competing schools are perhaps best seen as a struggle between “one- nature” (Monophysite) vs. “two-nature” (Dyophysite) Christology. The  presupposition of both schools is that members of natural kinds of things do  have natures, or essential properties which make the things what they are.  Thus, there is such a thing as human nature, and this differs from the divine  nature. According to Aristotle, the nature of man is that he is a rational  animal, so that being truly human involves having both an intellectual soul  and a physical body, and the Church Fathers seem to have accepted this  view. At the same time they believed that God possesses certain essential  attributes, such as omnipotence, omniscience, eternity, moral perfection, and  so forth. The question was how to understand the Incarnation of the divine  Logos, the second person of the Trinity, in the man Jesus of Nazareth. The  Fathers were unanimous in thinking that the Incarnation did not involve the  Logos’s divesting himself of certain divine attributes in order to turn himself  into a human being. Such a conception would be akin to pagan,  mythological ideas, such as Zeus’s transforming himself into a bull or swan.  The notion of the Incarnation was not that the Logos turned himself into a  human being, thereby ceasing to be God, but that Jesus Christ was both God  and man simultaneously. Since the divine nature was not abandoned by the  Logos, the Incarnation could only be conceived as the acquisition by the  Logos of the additional, essential properties of the human nature. The  question was how this acquisition of a human nature by the Logos is to be  understood.

Makale detayları

The Coherence of the Incarnation

Yazarlar: William Lane CRAIG

Yayıncı: Ankara University

Dergi: Journal of the Faculty of Divinity of Ankara University 2009 Vol.50 Issue 2, pp.185-200

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 7/2009

Belge Dili: Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.): 2000878891

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

eISSN: 1309-2057

pISSN: 1301-0522

Sayı

Yazarlar:

William Lane CRAIG

Yayıncı:

Ankara University

Dergi:

Journal of the Faculty of Divinity of Ankara University 2009 Vol.50 Issue 2, pp.185-200

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

7/2009

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2000878891

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

1309-2057

pISSN:

1301-0522