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The Word Made Flesh: A Theology of the Incarnation is unavailable, but you can change that!

Most theologians believe that in the human life of Jesus of Nazareth, we encounter God. Yet how the divine and human come together in the life of Jesus still remains a question needing exploring. The Council of Chalcedon sought to answer the question by speaking of “one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, the same perfect in divinity and also perfect in humanity, the same truly God and truly...

The name “Jesus” means “God saves” (see Matt. 1:21), and the conviction that God is the one and only Savior has always been central to those who look to Jesus as the “pioneer and perfecter” of their faith (Heb. 12:2). Its importance can be gauged from the fact that one of the favorite biblical texts of the earliest Christian writers was Isaiah 63:9 (LXX): “Neither an elder, nor an angel, but the Lord will save them because he loves them, and will spare
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