The Incarnation: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Incarnation of the Son of God

Table of contents

• The Incarnation i
• The Incarnation iii
• Preface v
• Contents xiii
• List of Plates xv
• Abbreviations xvi
• Participants in the Incarnation Summit (Easter, 2000, New York) xviii
• 1: The Incarnation 1
• Biblical Witness 29
• 2: Theophany, Anthropomorphism, and the Imago Dei 31
• 3: Jesus' Self-Understanding 47
• 4: St Paul and the Incarnation 62
• 5: Romans 8 93
• 6: The Incarnation 116
• Patristic and Medieval Witness 141
• 7: What Does Chalcedon Solve and What Does It Not? Some Reflections on the Status and Meaning of the Chalcedonian 'Definition' 143
• 8: Nature and the 'Mode of Union' 164
• 9: Aquinas' Metaphysics of the Incarnation 197
• Foundational and Systematic Issues 219
• 10: Was Jesus Mad, Bad, or God? 221
• 11: The Self-Emptying of Love 246
• 12: A Timeless God Incarnate 273
• The Incarnation Practised and Proclaimed 301
• 13: A Word Made Flesh 303
• 14: The Incarnation and Virtue Ethics 313
• 15: The Incarnation in Twentieth-Century Art 332
• 16: The Incarnation in Selected Christmas Sermons 373
• Index of Names 397

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