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Throughout the history of the church the doctrine of the person of Christ has been a centerpiece of theological reflection. In The Person of Christ Donald Macleod rearticulates this multifaceted doctrine. He begins with the New Testament and recent attempts to understand its Christology. Macleod then turns his attention to Christ in the history of Christian theology, examining the principal...

2:9). Consequently, he is equal with God; which is why, in turn, he is the unique revelation of God. Precisely because he has the likeness of his Father, to see him is to see the Father (Jn. 14:9). But can we speak of the Son as monogenēs from eternity? Or does the epithet apply to him only from the incarnation? Several factors bear on this question. First, there is the description of Christ as monogenēs theos in John 1:18. If he is monogenēs as theos then, surely, he is monogenēs from eternity?
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