The Incarnate Word
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The Incarnate Word
In summary: several developments needed to take place within Christianity if it were to survive: 1) evil and darkness needed to be incorporated in a new way; 2) the feminine needed to be given more credence by Christianity, which in its historical form is patriarchal and masculinist; 3) the scriptures needed to be delit-eralised and read as metapho
... See morewith the doctrine of the incarnation, Christians get to have it both ways: God is certainly transcendent and utterly “other” than the universe, but in the person of Jesus Christ we believe in a human being who is also divine.
In the incarnation one finds the immediate convergence of the most disparate things – God and humanity suffering under the weight of sin and death – as the means by which the goods of God’s own life are to be conveyed to us in fulfillment of God’s original intentions for us.