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In A.D. 451 the Council of Chalcedon declared that Jesus Christ is:
at once complete in Godhead and complete in manhood, truly God and truly man, consisting of a reasonable soul and body; of one substance with the Father as regards his Godhead, and at the same time of one substance with us as regards his manhood; like us in all respects, apart from sin; one and the same Christ, Son, Lord, Only-begotten, recognized in two natures, without confusion, without change, without division, without separation; the distinction of the two natures being in no way annulled by the union, but rather characteristics of each nature being, preserved and coming together to form one person and subsistence.[1]
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Henry Bettenson (ed.), Documents of the Christian Church (New York: Oxford University Press, 1960) pp. 72–3.
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles (Notre Dame, Indiana: Notre Dame University Press, 1975) Book IV: 195.
William Temple, Christus Veritas (London: Macmillan and Company, 1924) p. 139.
John Hick (ed.), The Myth of God Incarnate (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1977) p. 178.
See Richard Swinburne, The Coherence of Theism (Oxford University Press, 1977) pp., 38–9, for a discussion of this matter.
The latter line is taken by Brian Hebblethwaite in ‘Incarnation — The Essence of Christianity?’, Theology, 80 (March 1977) p. 86.
See P.T. Geach, Providence and Evil (Cambridge University Press, 1977) pp. 24–8. See also R.T. Herbert’s facinating proposal in Paradox and Identity in Theology (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1979) pp. 79–101.
John Calvin, The Institutes of the Christian Religion, ed. John T. McNeill (London: SCM Press, 1960) pp. 464–5.
Incarnation and Myth: The Debate Continued, ed. Michael Goulder (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 1979) p. 62.
See Claude Welch (ed.), God and Man in Mid-Nineteenth Century German Theology (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965)
and Frank Weston, The One Christ (London: Longmans Green, 1907).
See Temple, Christus Veritas, pp. 143ff. and D.M. Baille, God Was in Christ (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1948) pp. 94–8.
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Davis, S.T. (1983). Incarnation. In: Logic and the Nature of God. Library of Philosophy and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06352-9_9
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