Christ, the Christian, and the Church: A Study of the Incarnation and Its Consequences
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (895 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1683070194 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 275 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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He was a philosophical exponent of the Thomist tradition and professor of historical theology at King's College London.Gerald R. About the AuthorEric Lionel Mascall (1905-1993) was a leading theologian and priest in the Anglo-Catholic tradition of the Church of England. McDermott is the Anglican Chair of Divinity, History, and Doctrine at Beeson Divinity School.
He was a philosophical exponent of the Thomist tradition and professor of historical theology at King's College London.Gerald R. Eric Lionel Mascall (1905-1993) was a leading theologian and priest in the Anglo-Catholic tradition of the Church of England. McDermott is the Anglican Chair of Divinity, History, and Doctrine at Beeson Divinity School.
With an impressive facility for primary and secondary sources and an adamant commitment to God, Christ, the Christian, and the Church manages to be just as timely now as it was seventy years ago when it was initially published.. Instead of reinforcing the view that Christ's descent to earth was anthropocentric, Mascall explicates his point that it was in fact theocentric; man is woven "into the godhead" instead of "the godhead into flesh," and our actions as Christians are actions of Christ himself because of the unifying act of baptism. L. Mascall's discussion about the incarnation of the Son of God and its crucial connection to the individual and the church."Indeed what has chiefly convinced me of the supreme significance of the doctrine of the permanence of Christ's manhood as the central principle of Christian theology has been the extent to which that doctrine has made
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