Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-160) and index.
Contents:
Preface; Part I- Two Ways Of Thinking About; Christ; Inspiration or Incarnation; 1. Why did Jesus pray?; 2. Incarnational Christology; 3. Inspirational Christology; 4. Compatibility and the witness of the tradition; 5. John Owen; Part II- Incarnation; The Son assumes human nature; 1. The writing of Christologia; 2. Christ as the way of our knowing; 3. The context in which Christ is known; 4. The wisdom of God and the person of Christ; 5. The appropriateness of the incarnation; 6. The pre-existent Son; 7. God's eternal counsels; 8. The agent of the incarnation; 9. The Word became flesh; 10. The assumption of human nature; 11. Anhypostasia; 12. The hypostatic union; 13. The natures distinguished; 14. Interaction between the natures; Part III- Inspiration; The Spirit renews God's image in Christ's human nature; 1. Quakers and Socinians.; 2. The Spirit in the Christian life; 3. The Spirit in Nature and in Grace; 4. Christ as the foundation and goal of the Spirit's work; 5. Firstborn among many brothers; 6. The Spirit's work in Jesus; 7. Inspiration and incarnation; 8. Master-stories; 9. Integrity of the Person; Part IV -The Mediator; One person acting in two natures; 1. Athanasius - The Incarnation of the Word of God; 2. Anselm - Why was God made Man?; 3. Calvin - Incorporating both perspectives; 4. The office of Mediator; 5. The person of the Mediator; 6. From Logos to Mediator; 7. The Mediator as subject of the incarnate life; 8. Evaluation; Part V- The Son And The Father; Of the same being; 1. Introduction of the homoousion; 2. Arian Christology; 3. The Athanasian alternative; 4. The Socinians; 5. Owen's response; 6. Conclusion; Part VI -The Son And The Children; An 'autokinetic' human nature; 1. The relation between the natures. 2. The Apollinarian solution; 3. An alternative account; 4. The nature of Christ's humanity; 5. The self-consciousness of Jesus; 6. Conclusion; Part VII -Trinitarian Agency; The Son and Spirit as distinct agents; 1. Our knowledge of God as triune; 2. The essence of the doctrine; 3. Opera Trinitatis ad extra sunt indivisa; 4. Distinct principles of operation; 5. Resolution; 6. Consistent?; 7. Strictures on the tradition; 8. New possibilities; Part VIII- Conclusion; 1. The problem of Christology; 2. Owen and the coherence of Chalcedon; 3. Coherence and modern Christology; Bibliography.
Summary:
Through engagement with the historical debate, this title offers an exposition of the person of Jesus that brings together dissonant aspects of the tradition. It serves as an introduction to the theology to John Owen, the most able of the Puritan theologians. It seeks to illuminate the inner rationality of God's triune being and his mission.
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