Fully divine and fully human: a bi-modal outline towards consistency
Philosophers and theologians have long recognized apparent contradictions in the Christian doctrine of the incarnation wherein Jesus is both fully divine and fully human and thereby exemplifies all properties essential to being divine and all properties essential to being human, including, respectiv...
| Published in: | Religious studies |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2020
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| In: |
Religious studies
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Incarnation of Jesus Christ
/ Modalism
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| RelBib Classification: | NBC Doctrine of God NBF Christology |
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| Summary: | Philosophers and theologians have long recognized apparent contradictions in the Christian doctrine of the incarnation wherein Jesus is both fully divine and fully human and thereby exemplifies all properties essential to being divine and all properties essential to being human, including, respectively, immutability and mutability. In this article, we outline a new account of such apparent contradictions, wherein each such pair of (modal) properties involves different modal operators. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-901X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412520000360 |