Description
The doctrine of the incarnation is one of the central and defining dogmas of the Christian faith. In this text, Oliver Crisp builds upon his previous work, Divinity and Humanity: The Incarnation Reconsidered (Cambridge, 2007). In God Incarnate, he explores the Incarnation further and covers issues he did not deal with in his previous book. This work attempts to further the project of setting out a coherent account of the Incarnation by considering key facets of this doctrine, as parts of a larger, integrated, doctrinal whole.
Throughout, he is concerned to develop a position in line with historic Christianity that is catholic and ecumenical in tone, in line with the contours of the Reformed theological tradition within which his own work falls. And, like its predecessor, this book will draw upon philosophical and theological resources to make sense of the problems the doctrine faces.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1.Method in Christology
2.The election of Jesus Christ
3.The pre-existence of Christ
4.The ‘fittingness’ of the Virgin Birth
5.Christ and the embryo
6.Was Christ sinless or impeccable?
7.Materialist Christology
8.Multiple Incarnations
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
Author(s)
Oliver D. Crisp,
Dr Oliver D. Crisp is Reader in Theology at the University of Bristol, UK. He has authored Jonathan Edwards and the Metaphysics of Sin (Ashgate, 2005), Divinity and Humanity: Issues in the Incarnation (CUP, 2007), and co-edited Jonathan Edwards: Philosophical Theologian (Ashgate, 2003) with Paul Helm.
Reviews
'Oliver Crisp's God Incarnate is an "exercise in analytic theology" by a leading analytic theologian. Clearly written and rigorously argued, the book provides an engaging and theologically sensitive tour of a variety of issues concerning, and closely connected to, the metaphysics of the Incarnation. God Incarnate will surely be of interest to both philosophers and theologians working on this central aspect of Christian theology.'
Michael Rea,
‘Oliver Crisp continues his project of analytical theology with these doctrinally sensitive studies of central topics in Christology. There are few contemporary accounts of the metaphysics and dogmatics and dogmatics of incarnation which can match this book for clarity, rigour and penetration.’
John Webster, King's College, Aberdeen, Scotland
John Webster,