Incarnation Anyway

"This book raises in a new way a central question of Christology: what is the divine motive for the incarnation? Throughout Christian history, a majority of Western theologians have agreed that God's decision to become incarnate in the person of Jesus Christ was made necessary by "the Fall": if humans had not sinned, the incarnation would not have happened. This position is known as "infralapsarian." A minority of theologians, however, including some major nineteenth- and twentieth-century theological figures, championed a "supralapsarian" Christology, arguing that God has always intended the incarnation, independent of "the Fall."" "Edwin Chr. van Driel offers the first scholarly monograph to map and analyze the full range of supralapsarian arguments. He gives a thick description of each argument and its theological consequences, and evaluates the theological gains and losses inherent in each approach."--Jacket

• Author: Edwin Christian van Driel
• Publisher: Unknown Publisher
• Published: 2008-08-21
• Pages: 214