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He Came down from Heaven: The Preexistence of Christ and the Christian Faith is unavailable, but you can change that!

Who Was Jesus Christ? Accompanying all the new studies of the life of Jesus has been the question of Jesus’ identity. Was he anything more than a human creature? A key issue in this debate is the claim of Jesus’ preexistence as the divine, uncreated, Son of God before his incarnation on earth. Douglas McCready provides a thorough survey of the doctrine covering New Testament teaching, Jewish and...

It has been said that without belief in the preexistence of Christ, Christianity would no longer be recognizable.1 The doctrine of Christ’s personal preexistence as the second person of the Trinity is taken for granted by most orthodox Christians and has been since New Testament times. For more than a century, however, biblical scholars and theologians have increasingly questioned the teaching. This contrasts with previous challenges to the doctrine of Christ’s preexistence that have
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