Karl Barth and the Incarnation: Christology and the Humility of God (Biblia.com)

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This work demonstrates the significance of Karl Barth’s Christology by examining it in the context of his orientation toward the classical tradition—an orientation that was both critical and sympathetic. To compare this Christology with the doctrine’s history, Sumner suggests first that the Chalcedonian portrait of the incarnation is conceptually vulnerable at a number of points. By recasting the...

The assumptio is entirely one-sided, and in it the hypostasis of the Logos remains its only subject. Thus the product of these parallel affirmations of anhypostasis and enhypostasis is that the subject of the union is seen to be one and the same both prior to and after the incarnation, both asarkos and ensarkos. As important as this principle is to Barth between 1924 and 1938, Paul Jones is right to assign a rather limited role to anhypostasis and enhypostasis in Barth’s mature Christology as a whole.

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