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How can Jesus be fully human and fully divine? How can God be three-in-one? James Anderson develops and defends a model of understanding paradoxical Christian doctrines according to which the presence of such doctrines is unsurprising and adherence to paradoxical doctrines can be entirely reasonable. As such, the phenomenon of theological paradox cannot be considered as a serious intellectual...

CHAPTER 1 Introduction: The Problem of Paradox One should not think slightingly of the paradoxical; for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.1 1.1 Paradox in Christian Theology Credo quia absurdum—as Tertullian probably never said. Still, the sentiment behind the misquotation is a provocative one: that the Christian faith is absurd, because it asserts the impossible event of a divine death, yet this
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