This book explores a number of closely related logical and metaphysical questions relating to the identity of Jesus Christ. In particular it considers: 'What does 'Jesus Christ' name?' and 'How may Jesus Christ be the subject of both divine and human attributes, given their apparent ...
[2] Consider Christ's two natures in one person, God-man. "God manifest in the flesh." 1 Tim 3:16. Christ had a twofold substance, divine and human—yet not a twofold subsistence; both natures make but one Christ. A scion may be grafted into another tree — like a pear-tree into...
As we reflect on the mystery of the Incarnation, we have to recognize that we are dealing with a staggering miracle. And the miraculous aspect of it has to do with what Chalcedon confesses of the one person, Jesus of Nazareth. He is one person, with two natures, and these natures are...
Inquiry into this realm leads one to think upon the two natures of Christ and their relationship to each other.The kenosis is about the incarnation event. It is about the person who existed in God's form and emptied himself (Philippians 2:6-7). The emptying of Christ is the heart of ...
a position in the 4th-century controversy over Christ’s nature, asserting that He and God were of similar, but not the same, natures; semi-Arianism. Alsohomoeanism. —homoiousian,n., adj. homoousianism a position in the 4th-century controversy over Christ’s nature, asserting that He ...
God created human beings in His likeness, but Adam and Eve sinned when they were tempted by the Devil. As a result of this sin and each persons choices, all humans are separated from God. Jesus Christ is God incarnate – fully God and fully man, one Person in two natures. Jesus (Yesh...
Christ’s sinless humanity, which had preserved the original purity of the image of God (“natural grace”), was sanctified by union with His Divinity, in the free harmonization of the two wills, Divine and human, in the unity of the hypostatic life of the two natures, inseparable and ...
“mediatorial dominion of Christ” over the nations, meaning that the risen Christ–God and man in two distinct natures and one person forever–has full authority in heaven and on earth, including over nations and their governments. They should therefore recognize and submit to his rule. The ...
They start their christological reflection with the scriptural claim that Jesus is Lord and then ask about the condition in God for the possibility of Jesus' lordship, rather than try to describe the unity of abstractly predefined two natures in the one person of Christ. This ...
Talks about how Jesus Christ is 1 person with 2 natures St. Leo the Great ( Rejected Monophysitism ) a divine nature and a human nature combine What is one major theological belief that came out of the Council of Nicea? the doctrine of the Trinity, which holds that God exists as thre...