The Incarnation as a Continuing Reality
Professor MacKinnon, in an essay on Philosophy and Christology, remarks that Christology confronts theology with difficult but inescapable problems' because logically it is unique; and yet it overlaps here, there and everywhere'. The complexity of the task, however, does not excuse the t...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | Drawer...
|
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Cambridge Univ. Press
[1970]
|
| In: |
Religious studies
Year: 1970, Volume: 6, Issue: 4, Pages: 303-327 |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (Resolving-System) Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | Professor MacKinnon, in an essay on Philosophy and Christology, remarks that Christology confronts theology with difficult but inescapable problems' because logically it is unique; and yet it overlaps here, there and everywhere'. The complexity of the task, however, does not excuse the theologian from the need to determine the logical nature of the concept of incarnation' if he wishes to use it in his work—and, as I hope to show, any theology which attempts to describe the actual nature of God probably cannot avoid using this concept in some form or other. Only by appreciating the logic of this concept can the theologian be confident that he understands its proper content and implications and that he offers appropriate justification for his claims about it. In this paper I want to suggest one possible way of viewing the logic of incarnational talk in theology which is based upon the attempt to treat such talk in terms of the notion of revelation'. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 1469-901X |
| Reference: | Kritisiert in "The Incarnation as a Contingent Reality (1972)"
|
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
|
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412500004698 |