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Christ the Key
Through the intensely intimate relationship that arises between God and humans in the incarnation of the Word in Christ, God gives us the gift of God's own life. This simple claim provides the basis for Kathryn Tanner's powerful study of the centrality of Jesus Christ for all Christian thought and life: if the divine and the human are united in Christ, then Jesus can be se...more
Paperback, 309 pages
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by Cambridge University Press
(first published December 31st 2009)
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"If humans are the image of God they must be, as Gregory of Nyssa affirms, an incomprehensible image of the incomprehensible.... Jesus is not the comprehensible stand-in or substitute for an incomprehensible divinity but the very exhibition of the incomprehensible divinity of the Word in a human form or medium. Jesus displays in his life what it means to be an incomprehensible image in the flesh of an incomprehensible God" (54-55).
Good, provocative stuff all through. Tanner could provide a really healthy infusion of constructive theology into some of the more inert parts of the contemporary Reformed tradition. I especially like what she has to say about the pattern of descent/ascent in trinitarian life, and the implications for the Protestant theology of nature-grace.
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