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On the Incarnation: Text is unavailable, but you can change that!

By any standard, this is a classic of Christian theology. Composed by St. Athanasius in the fourth century, it expounds with simplicity the theological vision defended at the councils of Nicaea and Constantinople: that the Son of God himself became “fully human, so that we might become god.” Its influence on all Christian theology thereafter, East and West, ensures its place as one of the few...

beings in his own image through “his own Word (Logos), our Savior Jesus Christ”. To be in the image of God is to be logikos, a term which can only be translated into English, but very unsatisfactorily, as “rational.” For while the term “rational” brings to mind notions of rationality, and often gets cast into an opposition between body and mind, the term logikos must be understood in terms of its relation to the Logos, in whose image human beings have been created and after whose pattern of life
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