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H. R. Mackintosh provides an introductory survey of Christology, seeking “to explain in detail how God became, for our redemption, incarnate in the person of Jesus Christ.” The first half of the work contains a chronological narrative history of the doctrine of Christ that is centered around major theological developments. The second half covers the major philosophical and theological issues of...

* ONE defect in traditional Christology, of which the best modern thought is sensible, is a tendency to construe our Lord’s person in rigid and quiescent terms which are hostile to the idea of development. The Cyrilline theory, whatever its discretion in statement, left no place for growth in the Incarnate. He is represented as being complete mit einem Schlage, at a single stroke. The whole significance of His personality is given by fiat from the very outset.
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