Thomas Morris, in his book, The Logic of God Incarnate, outlines the incoherence charge made against the doctrine of the incarnation. The Doctrine of the Incarnation is the belief that Jesus Christ is both God and human.Paul writes, “In him [Jesus Christ] the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily” (Col 2:9). This leads to a number of propositions: Jesus is God, the Son. Jesus is human Jesus is one with the father Jesus is one person Jesus has two natures, one divine, one human. If we are committed to such a set of propositions we, according to Morris, are committed to the propositions, “Jesus of Nazareth is one and the same individual as God the Son,…
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Resistance to the Incarnation
”I believe in God almighty, and in Christ Jesus, his only Son, our Lord who was born of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary” (The Old Roman Creed). This, for those who believe, is the good news of Christmas, that God descend to en-flesh himself, that he should dwell with us. But the news is also resisted. The doctrine of the Virgin birth is, for example, an anathema to modern scientism, the belief in the universal applicability of the scientific method and approach, and the view that empirical science constitutes the most authoritative worldview or most valuable part of human learning to the exclusion of other viewpoints. According to this view,…