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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...

therefore the child to be born [of you] will be called holy, the Son of God. (Lk. 1:35, RSV) It is difficult to lay down, dogmatically, that there could be no incarnation without a virgin birth. What we can say, however, is that there would be something profoundly incongruous in a non-miraculous advent. In Hebrews 2:10, the writer speaks of the fittingness of the Captain of Salvation being made perfect through sufferings. There is surely a similar fittingness in the manner of our Lord’s birth as
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