God in One Person: The Case for Non-Incarnational ChristianityA.Richard Kingston, Jo Campling This text defends a special focus on Jesus in theistic faith, whilst denying his divinity. Having limited the genuine choice in Christology to orthodoxy or unitarianism, it argues first for the prior improbability of an incarnation, examining and dismissing possible justifications. |
Contents
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The Agreed Background | 12 |
Religious experience and other considerations | 18 |
Does God Intervene in History? | 27 |
Do miracles require intervention? | 34 |
Effecting the spiritual salvation of mankind | 43 |
Identification with suffering humanity | 50 |
The kenotic explanation | 56 |
What would resurrection appearances really prove? | 105 |
Unacceptable justifications of resurrection belief | 111 |
Do Other Factors Point to Divinity? | 118 |
The Messiah and other titles | 124 |
Does All His Teaching Befit Divinity? | 135 |
Improper reliance on providence rewards | 144 |
Seeking to Understand the Real Jesus | 153 |
But not as sacrificial Saviour | 160 |
Thomas Morris on two natures compatibility | 64 |
How Could God Incarnate be Recognized? | 72 |
INCARNATION AS A NEEDLESS | 84 |
The nature miracles | 92 |
Do the Resurrection Reports Accredit Divinity? | 98 |
Why then the Special Focus on Jesus? | 167 |
Realistic worship and social commitment | 181 |
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