Vere deus vere homo: a critical assessment of Christological discourse concluding with a brief appraisal of selected Christological hymns

Title: Vere deus vere homo: a critical assessment of Christological discourse concluding with a brief appraisal of selected Christological hymns
Creator: Gamley, Anthony M
Subject: Jesus Christ -- History of doctrines Hymns, English Theology, Doctrinal Barth, Karl., 1886-1968
Date: 1963
Type: Thesis
Type: Bachelor
Type: BDiv
Identifier: vital:1253
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011938
Description: "We preach Christ crucified, a stumbling-block to Jews and folly to Gentiles". In so writing, St. Paul stated in its briefest form the scandal of the Christian faith. To human reason it is nonsense to suppose that a man who grew up and lived like other men, and who ultimately died on a cross, could at the same time be the Son of God, equal to God, eternal like God, and Creator of the world with Him. Contrary to the painfully-evolved and carefully formulated conclusion reached by philosophers, that God is one, and diametrically opposed to the monotheistic divine revelation given to Israel, the belief that Jesus was Son of God and equal to His Father seemed; when it was first postulated, to imply some kind of flaw in the indivisibility of God. Men were being asked to believe that they could see God incarnate, that is, in a being of flesh and blood. Yet all our faith hovers around this precise point.
Format: 133 leaves, pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University, Faculty of Divinity, Divinity
Language: English
Rights: Gamley, Anthony M

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