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The focal point in Oden’s second volume is Jesus Christ. He is the Word made flesh, and this idea engages Oden in a methodical examination of Christ’s deity, the incarnation, and Christ’s humanity. In pursuit of the historical Jesus, we are invited to an intimate look at Jesus’ public ministry, as well as His death and resurrection.

lived, and died without sin, should reconcile us to God” (Enchiridion 108, NPNF 1 III, p. 272; cf. Diadokos, On Spiritual Knowledge, Philokal. III, p. 280). Calvin stated the point with extraordinary precision: “In short, since neither as God alone could he feel death, nor as man alone could he overcome it, he coupled human nature with divine that to atone for sin he might submit the weakness of the one to death; and that, wrestling with death by the power of the other nature, he might win victory
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