Incarnation
Subtitle: on the scope and depth of Christology
By: Niels Henrik Gregersen, editor
Contributors: Templeton Foundation; Københavns universitet. Teologiske fakultet
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9781451465402; 9781451469844
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Immanence of God; Nature; Incarnation; Congresses; Christianity
Description: "Incarnation takes the reader on a journey from New Testament and early church views of incarnation to contemporary understandings of Christology. A prominent group of scholars explores and debates the idea of 'deep incarnation' -- the view that the divine incarnation in Jesus presupposes a radical embodiment that reaches into the roots of material and biological existence, as well as into the darker sides of creation. Such a wide-scope view of incarnation allows Christology to be meaningful when responding to the challenges of scientific cosmology and global religious pluralism"--Back cover.
Notes: "This volume grew out of a symposium held in Hamlet's city of Elsinore in August 26-29, 2011, sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation and organized in collaboration with the Faculty of Theology at Copenhagen University"--Page ix.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The incarnation and the cosmic Christ  -- Richard Bauckham; title: Word, Spirit, and Wisdom in the universe: a biblical and theological reflection  -- Gerald O'Collins, SJ; title: Saint Athanasius on "incarnation"  -- John Behr; title: Saint Maximus the Confessor on creation and incarnation  -- Torstein Theodor Tollefsen; title: Is God incarnate in all that is?  -- Jürgen Moltmann; title: Jesus and the cosmos: soundings in deep Christology  -- Elizabeth A. Johnson; title: Incarnation and the natural world: explorations in the tradition of Athanasius  -- Denis Edwards; title: The wisdom of fools?: a theo-dramatic interpretation of deep incarnation  -- Celia Deane-Drummond; title: Depth, sign and destiny: thoughts on incarnation  -- Christopher Southgate; title: The extended body of Christ: three dimensions of deep incarnation  -- Niels Henrik Gregersen; title: Divine presence-- causal, cybernetic, caring, cruciform: from information to incarnation  -- Holmes Rolston III; title: Natural incarnation: from the possible to the actual  -- Stuart Kauffman; title: Incarnation and faith in an evolutionary framework  -- Dirk Evers; title: Jesus: the way of all flesh and the proleptic feather of time  -- Robert John Russell; title: Afterword: Reservations  -- John Polkinghorne; title: Deep incarnation: opportunities and challenges -- Niels Henrik Gregersen.