Required reading
Systematic Theology by Charles Hodge (Vol 2) (Available from Amazon or free here) - Continue Chapter 3 (Person of Christ) by reading up to the heading 'Schleiermacher'.
My summary
Now Hodge presents modern forms of the doctrine of the person of Christ.
We learn about the positions of:
(i) Pantheistical Christology (teaching the oneness of God and man);
(ii) Theistical Christology (teaching the human nature as capable of being made divine);
(iii) Ebrard (teaching that the Logos reduced Himself to the dimensions of a man);
(iv) Gess (teaching that the eternal son at the incarnation laid aside the Godhead).
What grabbed me
I liked this comment from Hodge: 'The theory in question is inconsistent with the clear doctrine both of revealed and natural religion concerning the nature of God. He is a Spirit infinite, eternal, and immutable. Any theory, therefore, which assumes that God lays aside his omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence, and becomes as feeble, ignorant, and circumscribed as an infant, contradicts the first principle of all religion, and, if it be pardonable to say so, shocks the common sense of men. '
It is shocking indeed!
Next week's reading
Conclude Chapter 3 (Person of Christ).
Now it's your turn
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