Incarnation

Christmas celebrates Jesus Christ becoming man. God the Son becoming Jesus Christ on earth is also referred to as the Incarnation. Although not being used in the Bible, the word Incarnation means clothed in flesh or becoming flesh. God came to earth Incarnate through Mary in a virgin birth. Throughout salvation history, there were many events, writings, and people which led up to the Incarnation of Jesus Christ on Christmas. Since the beginning of man, God has promised a Messiah from his own…

In the fourth century, Saint Athanasius, the bishop of Alexandria, wrote the apologetic treatise On the Incarnation to explain and defend Christ’s incarnation. This paper will look at three specific questions that can be drawn from this document which are relevant to modern Christians. First, what was Athanasius’ purpose in writing this text? Second, what is the central thesis and the main points of Athanasius’ argument? And third, what insights does Athanasius’ text provide that are pertinent…

Our bodies, spirits, the spirits of the ages, Nature in all its manifestations, Incarnation of the One God, Source of All, revealed in Jesus, being brought to fulfillment in us. Red Destiny 2010 p045 October 1, 2010 Friday Already I am unable to give the one I could hope to this new chapter in my life quest for Cosmic Christ Consciousness…

also see that one of the main points is that it is a literary narrative, meaning that it is telling a story, and we can see that childhood can be a big part of their literary narratives. In Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild,” David Foster Wallace’s “Incarnations of Burned Children,” Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl,” Ursula Le Guin’s…

One of the things that I enjoyed most was our readings. Incarnations of Burned Children by David Foster Wallace, Lobster Night by Russell Banks, and Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman are three short stories that impacted me the most from these stories. From Incarnations of Burned Children and Binocular Vision I learned that a story does not have to be long at all for it to be meaningful. The use of one single event…

“Girl,” there is no present, occurring action. However, the actions narrated in the story through the mother’s commands and instructions help the reader to draw conclusions about the daughter’s and mother’s personalities. In David Foster Wallace’s “Incarnation of Burned Children,” the father’s methodical response to a tragedy shows his fear and desperation as a father. Both Kincaid and Wallace employ…

1.What is the Incarnation, and what does it mean in the Christian life? The Incarnation is the mystery of the hypostatic union of the divine and human natures in the one divine Person of the Word, Jesus Christ. What the Incarnation means in Christian life is that we are lived by the way God lived. 2.List ways in which Jesus shared the human condition. Jesus shared the human condition in several ways. He allowed himself to experience temptation. He also experienced hunger, thirst, and anger.…

Borgman for using the incarnation as a ‘strategy of influence’ (2013:43-44) and epistemological leverage (2004:99). He uses the words incarnational and empathetic interchangeably, developing a concept through Bonhoeffer’s Stellvertreter or place-sharing. One of Root’s most helpful contributions to our discussion is his critique of the incarnational theology present in youth ministries. As a Young Life trained worker…

life of Jesus Christ. T.F. Torrance illustrates humanity’s dependency on the incarnation by saying “our approach to Christ can be only from the standpoint of sinners whose sins have been forgiven, and for whom Christ is the son of the living God become flesh in order to reconcile the world to God” (Torrance, 2008, pg. 11). The only way humanity can see the incarnation is that we are in need of salvation and the incarnation provides that salvation. Since God became man in His son Jesus Christ, He…

Incarnational Union Soteriology is this: God goes to hell, so that hell goes to God. More exactly, Incarnational Union Soteriology is a soteriology that focuses on the Incarnation, the Word becoming Flesh, and in the words of the Church fathers that "[i]n Christ, God becomes human, so that humans can become God" (CP2 28). It is through the Incarnation that humanity is divinized, yet in order for us to share divinity with God, God must become and share in our humanity. Christ could not have…