Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century

Beeley provides much discussion and several examples from the church fathers in his Unity of Christ, esp. 39, 134, 164, 193.

For a robust, and complicated, treatment of various difficult doctrines centered around the incarnation, see Gerald O’Collins, Incarnation. O’Collins,

For a good, recent account of the various things “son of god” could have meant in the first century CE, see Peppard, Son of God.

As Hauerwas puts it, “Aquinas was right that only God is pure act. Only in God are existence and essence one. Accordingly, our language about God is necessarily analogical, which means that theology has the task of helping the church not say more about God than needs to be said.” Hannah’s Child, 52.

Jesus is the radically human God—a version and vision of God unthinkable in many philosophies, theologies, and religions, but a version of God demanded by orthodox Christianity.

with the doctrine of the incarnation, Christians get to have it both ways: God is certainly transcendent and utterly “other” than the universe, but in the person of Jesus Christ we believe in a human being who is also divine.

the author of Luke and Acts does not seem to consider Jesus’s death to be a sacrifice. There is no “atonement” to speak of in Luke–Acts.

Paul is saying that the resurrected body of Christ was as different from his preresurrected body as a flower is from a seed. Not only is its appearance different; its very material substance is different—and superior.

anyone who thinks love of God can be done without love of neighbor is deluded. We demonstrate that we love God only when we are loving others.