And was made man : mind, metaphysics, and incarnation / Robin Le Poidevin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Le Poidevin, Robin, 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Incarnation.

Jesus Christ--Divinity.

Jesus Christ.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

The idea that God became human in Christ seems paradoxical: surely nothing can be both divine and human? Robin Le Poidevin deploys the resources of contemporary metaphysics to show how even the apparently unchangeable aspects of the divine might be relinquished by God the Son.

Contents:

Intro

Halftitle page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication page

Contents

Preface

Annunciation

1. The Great Mystery

1.1 Incarnation and Inconsistency

1.2 Why Be Orthodox?

1.3 Period or Contemporary Metaphysics?

1.4 Defending Incarnational Christology

1.5 Plan of This Book

Part I. Incarnational Models

2. A Composite Christ?

2.1 A Disturbing Case

2.2 The Reduplicative Formula and Its Interpretation

2.3 Simple Son, Composite Christ: Model A

2.4 The Son Becomes Composite: Model T

3. The Divided Mind

3.1 Dissociated Mental Lives

3.2 Access and Anomaly

3.3 Two Persons or One?

3.4 Filial Fission

4. Kenosis

4.1 The Varieties of Kenoticism

4.2 The Case for Kenoticism

4.3 Objections to Kenoticism-and Replies

Part II. 'Impossible' Transformations

5. Divine Embodiment

5.1 Omnipresence and Space

5.2 Embodiment as Causal Connection

5.3 Embodiment as Realization

5.4 Occupation with and without Spatial Parts

6. The Problem of Necessity

6.1 The Modal Argument

6.2 Incarnational Models and the Modal Argument

6.3 Immortality and Self-sufficiency

6.4 Conditional and Absolute Necessity

6.5 The Shadow of Arianism

7. Christ and the Ground of Goodness

7.1 Meta-ethics and the Incarnation

7.2 Transmitter or Originator of Value? The Euthyphro Dilemma

7.3 Temptation, Ignorance, and Being Human

7.4 Types, Tokens, and the Trinity

7.5 Christ as Moral Exemplar

8. The Times of God Incarnate

8.1 The Temporal Paradox of the Incarnation

8.2 Time and Spacetime

8.3 Temporal Existence

8.4 God's Relation to Time

8.5 Resolving the Temporal Paradox

8.6 Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Le Poidevin, Robin And Was Made Man

ISBN:

0-19-197623-7

0-19-287383-0

0-19-166428-6