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tiistai 3. helmikuuta 2009

Putting Jesus in His Place (by Robert Bowman Jr. and Ed Komoszewski)

This is one among the many books that I'm currently reading. It's pretty easy to understand but yet not simplistic presentation of the many and varied ways in which the New Testament presents Jesus as God.

This book is especially useful as a resource if you're dealing with Jehovah's Witnesses (as I currently am), as they are willing allow the entirety of the NT data as accurate representation of who Jesus was, rather than arguing for legendary developments etc.

I'll probably write a fuller book review at some later time.


tiistai 16. joulukuuta 2008

The Metaphysics of the Incarnation -- Logically Coherent Model

In this article, I will try to solve one particular aspect of the problem of the coherence of the Christian doctrine of Incarnation. I think that the attitude that just refuses to analyze the issue rationally and simply declares it a mystery is way too common. While I don't disagree that the Incarnation is mysterious in a profound sense, it does not follow that one cannot make any rational sense of it. Here's my attempt. To do so. I'm relying on certain ideas that I got from reading Thomas V. Morris, William Lane Craig, J. P. Moreland and Richard Swinburne on the subject, but I don't think that any of those authors present the exact same model that I do. As I focus on a particular aspect of the problem, I will take Morris' thorough argumentation on certain foundational issues in his book The Logic of the God Incarnate as more or less a given (thus I only summarize him on that point). But my contribution is perhaps a bit more original in the way that I build on this foundation, as well as the way that I use visual illustrations. (Though actually, on my first reading of Morris' book Our Idea of God, I thought that Morris intended to present the exact same model.)

Here's a link to the article:

The Relation of Christ’s Divine Mind to His Humanity: A Logically Coherent Model of the Incarnation

(Article hosted at Bukisa.com)