God Who Became Human A Biblical Theology of Incarnation

Name: God Who Became Human A Biblical Theology of Incarnation
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ISBN: 9780830826315

ISBN-10: 0830826319

ISBN-13: 9780830826315

Edition: 2013

Authors: Graham A. Cole, D. A. Carson

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Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Publication date: 6/6/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 202
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Graham A. Cole is Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He is the author of Engaging with the Holy Spirit, He Who Gives Life: The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, and numerous articles in periodicals and books, including the New Dictionary of Christian Apologetics.



Series preface


Author's preface


Abbreviations


Introduction


Why this book?


Assumptions


Praeparatio evangelica


The Plan of the book



God prepares the way from the beginning


God and God's image


The portrayal of God in the beginning


Some early Christian commentary


God prepares the way to what end?


God prepares the way by promise


Conclusion


Excursus: Would the incarnation have taken place irrespective of the Fall?



God prepares the way in his dealings with Abraham and Abraham's Old Testament children


The patriarchal story and the 'embodied' God


Abraham and the three visitors


Jacob and the wrestler


The Mosaic story and the 'embodied' God


The Judges story and the 'embodied' God


The former prophets and the 'embodied' God


The latter prophets and the 'embodied' God


Conclusion



God prepares the way in Israel's hope


The hope for a divine Messiah


Israel's hope and the incarnation: key texts revisited


Intertestamental hopes


Typology and incarnation


Conclusion



The great mystery


In retrospect


But incarnation?


Conclusion


Excursus: the pre-incarnate Christ, theophany and the Old Testament debate



Cur Deus homo


New Testament answers


The timing of the incarnation: insight from Thomas Aquinas


Conclusion


Excursus: Did the divine Son assume fallen or unfallen human nature?



The significance of the incarnation


Theological significance


Existential significance


Conclusion



Conclusion


Appendix: The theological interpretation of Scripture


Bibliography


Index of authors


Index of Scripture references


Index of ancient sources