March 10, 2020

Dogmatic Theology Vol 2 - Shedd - XVI - Chapter I Christ's theanthropic person continued

Required reading
Dogmatic Theology Vol 2 by William G.T. Shedd (Available from Amazon or free here) - Continue Chapter 1 'Christ's theanthropic person' by reading up to the paragraph beginning '9. In the incarnation, the Logos did not unite himself with the whole human nature, but with only a part of it.' (page 295 of my edition).

My summary
Today we continue hearing the particulars of Christ's theanthropic person.

5. The theanthropic personality of the Redeemer began in time.
6. Though beginning in time, the theanthropic personality of the Redeemer continues forever
7. The incarnation makes no change in the constitution of the Trinity.
8. In the incarnation, the Logos does not unite himself with a human person but with a human nature.

What grabbed me

I liked Shedd's defence of the unchanging nature of the Godhead: 

'The incarnation makes no change in the constitution of the Trinity. It leaves in the Godhead, as it finds in it, only three persons. For the addition of a human nature to the person of the Logos, is not the addition of another person to him. The second trinitarian person, though so much modified by the incarnation as to become a God-man, is not so much modified as to lose his proper trinitarian personality, because incarnation is not the juxtaposition of a human person with a divine person, but the assumption of a human nature to a divine person. The incarnation produces a change in the humanity that is assumed, by exiting and glorifying it, but no change in the deity that assumes.'

Amen!

Next week's reading
Conclude Chapter 1 'Christ's theanthropic person' .

Now it's your turn
Please post your own notes and thoughts in the comments section below.
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