The Mystery of the Incarnation

by Norman Anderson

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877845301
• ISBN13: 9780877845300
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: IVP Books
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

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Mystery of the Incarnation by an enlightened Lay Theologian

The Mystery and the books:Many books have been written by believers and skeptics, since the two schools of Christian thought monist Alexandria and dualist Antioch started to examine this mystery described by St.Paul to Timothy as:"Without any doubt, the mystery of our religion is great: He was revealed in the flesh, vindicated in the spirit..."1Tim 3:16,(NRSV),while the NJB describes the mystery as: very deep indeed. Under the same exact title, Cardinal Basil hume wrote his book for the believers.James Norman Dalrymple, Sir Anderson:The author of many books that prove his masterful approach and the depth of his subject selection,include Christianity and Comparative religion , and Issues of life and Death. Sir Norman anderson, before retiring was professor of Oriental laws, and director of the institute of Advanced Legal Studies at the university of London. Although he describes himself, in the book foreward, as amateur in the field, but his invitation to give the series of lecture reveals how expert few amateurs can naturally evolve to be an antidote to excessive specialization.Book Milieu, and Subject Elaboration:The concise forward tells you the background of the theological debate in G.B. about Christianity since 1976, for serious minded people inside and outside the Church. A debate john of Woolwich started a decade before. He recounts his memoirs related to the subject of the lectures including his letter to John Hick, and books by C. Moule, E. Mascall, and G. Lampe (Bampton lectures)1. The backgroud to the contemporary debate2. Christology down the centuries3. The incarnation and comparative religion4. Some examples of contemporary debate I & II :5.6. The Incarnation and personal faith today7. Glossary (concise but extremely helpful for non theologians)Biblical Christology:Taking the then hot debate, as a refernce point he elaborated very masterfully on the original bible message and how close were its interpretation by different debaters. This was his benchmark that he compares contemporary theologians views including john knox, J.A.T.Robinson, and Lampe among others.The author builds up in a logical way his developed scheme interpretting and solving the problems theologians stuggled with.Glimpses of Enlightment:-On Cyril of Alexandria:Yet Harnack could write of Luther that'Since Cyril, no teacher has arisen in the Church to whom the mystery of the unity of the two natures in Christ was so deep a consolation'-On Alexandrian Vs Antiochene Christology:In terms of the classical Christology, what we must take from Alexandrines is that Jesus Christ himself, and not merely the Logos who assumed manhood in him, was truly God; and what we must take from the Antiochenes is that he himself, as an integrated personality, truly became man.-On Salvation of Non Christians:that 'the whole religious life of mankind, beyond the stream of Judaic-christian faithis thus by implication excluded as lying outside the sphere of salvation, that 'the doorway bto e