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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.

under a particular political regime, of a particular ethnicity, and in a particular family. “And being found in appearance as a man” (Phil. 2:8), that is, “recognized as truly human” (Weymouth transl.). This phrase does not imply that he was not really a man, but underscores the contrast—being God he was found in human form, appeared as such, and was recognizable as such. “His experience was that of every other man, eating, drinking, sleeping, waking, walking, standing, hungering, thirsting,
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