Book contents
- The New Cambridge Companion to Aquinas
- Other Volumes in the Series of Cambridge Companions
- The New Cambridge Companion to Aquinas
- Copyright page
- For our teachers
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- A Select List of Aquinas’s Works
- Introduction
- Part I Life and Works
- Part II Metaphysics and the Ultimate Foundation of Reality
- Part III Epistemology
- Part IV Ethics
- Part V Philosophical Theology
- 13 Original Sin
- 14 The Incarnation
- 15 Evil, Sin, and Redemption
- 16 Resurrection and Eschatology
- Bibliography
- Index
- Other Volumes in the Series of Cambridge Companions (continued from page ii)
14 - The Incarnation
from Part V - Philosophical Theology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 July 2022
- The New Cambridge Companion to Aquinas
- Other Volumes in the Series of Cambridge Companions
- The New Cambridge Companion to Aquinas
- Copyright page
- For our teachers
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- A Select List of Aquinas’s Works
- Introduction
- Part I Life and Works
- Part II Metaphysics and the Ultimate Foundation of Reality
- Part III Epistemology
- Part IV Ethics
- Part V Philosophical Theology
- 13 Original Sin
- 14 The Incarnation
- 15 Evil, Sin, and Redemption
- 16 Resurrection and Eschatology
- Bibliography
- Index
- Other Volumes in the Series of Cambridge Companions (continued from page ii)
Summary
The doctrine of the Incarnation is the Christian teaching that Jesus Christ, the man who was born of Mary and crucified under Pontius Pilate, was not merely a human, but was God incarnate – one person of the Holy Trinity. Retaining his divine nature, the Son of God took on, or assumed, in the technical language, a human nature, and thus became a real human, no less a human than you or I. Jesus Christ, then, on the traditional view that Aquinas inherited and defended, is one divine person with two complete natures. This chapter will focus on Aquinas’s metaphysical understanding of the Incarnation. For a discussion of the goal of the Incarnation – the regeneration of humans to right relationship with God – seein this volume, by Thomas Williams.1
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- The New Cambridge Companion to Aquinas , pp. 322 - 342Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022