What Is the Incarnation?
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Want to make sense of the New Testament? Start with the Incarnation—a truth that goes far beyond Christmas. The miracle of Jesus’ Incarnation touches on deep truths, speaking to the very nature of God and humanity. Evans shows how the Bible consistently supports the incarnation as actual fact. He also describes the early church’s efforts to express this great mystery and explores some key questions about the incarnation and its practical implications for our daily lives.
Top Highlights
“the doctrine of the incarnation is first and foremost a matter of doxology rather than an intellectual puzzle” (Page 5)
“by having the Logos take the place of the human mind and soul as the rational principle of Christ’s person.” (Page 15)
“Second, against Nestorius the Council affirmed that these two natures exist in hypostatic union” (Page 17)
“Arius viewed Christ as a lesser ‘god’ but not as God” (Page 14)
“The only way for sinners to be redeemed from this penalty of eternal death is for a perfect sacrifice to be offered, and Jesus as the God-man is this perfect and all-sufficient sacrifice for sin on our behalf as he took upon himself the penalty that we deserve.” (Page 8)
- Title: What Is the Incarnation?
- Author: William B. Evans
- Series: Basics of the Faith
- Publisher: P&R
- Print Publication Date: 2013
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Jesus Christ › Person and offices; Incarnation
- ISBNs: 9781596388291, 9781596388314, 1596388293, 1596388315
- Resource ID: LLS:WHTSNCRNTN
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-11-19T16:59:34Z
Reviews
2 ratings
Forrest Cole
11/9/2021
Glenn Crouch
6/24/2021
This is a good little booklet, that introduces the reader to the Incarnation. It contains a very good, brief history of the church’s struggle to best explain what we understand about Jesus from the Scriptures, and does a fair, though brief, handling of Councils and Heresies. In the latter part of the book, the Author argues for the distinctively Reformed understanding of a number of issues - thus as a Lutheran Pastor, I would disagree with his conclusions about what the Scriptures teach here. What is really lacking is a page or two for further reading - this would’ve made this an excellent little book to get people started on Christology.
