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...

theological discourse within the boundaries of Christendom. “Chalcedonianism,” broad as it may be, thus speaks to very particular theological positions.10 It was this ecclesially defined Christology that John, in the wake of Constantinople III, sought to articulate and to defend—and that, of course, continued to influence the Christologies of theologians throughout the medieval, Reformation, and modern periods who have sought to be orthodox in their own expressions. Second, because this study is

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